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20080198410 | Print Management Device and Print Management Method - A print management device receives printing data and judges whether a digital signature is attached to the printing data. When a digital signature is attached, the device judges whether a public key of the digital signature is stored and permits printing when the public key of the digital signature is stored and information permitting printing is stored. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198411 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ACTIVATING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus includes a memory interface configured to receive an external memory, an internal memory, a reading unit, a writing unit, and an activating unit. The activating unit activates the image forming apparatus when an external memory is connected to the memory interface and model data read from the external memory by the reading unit is the same as model data about the image forming apparatus stored in the internal memory. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198412 | Data processing device and data processing method - There is provided a data processing device having a plurality of functions including at least a print function of forming an image on a recording medium and a facsimile function of transmitting facsimile data. The data processing device comprises: a connection unit to which a portable storage medium is detachably attached; a storage unit configured to store relationship information defining relationship between a data type and a function to be executed for data having the data type; a reading unit configured to read data from the portable storage medium attached to the connection unit; a judgment unit configured to judge a data type of the data read by the reading unit from the portable storage medium; and a function execution unit configured to execute one of the plurality of functions corresponding to the data type judged by the judgment unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198413 | Image forming device - An image forming device is provided with an external storage, a printing unit, a storage controlling unit configured to store the image data in the external storage or an internal storage. The storage controlling device stores the image data developed from the print data retrieved from the print data stored in the external in the external storage, while stores the image data developed from the print data transmitted from the external device in the internal storage. At least file names of image data stored in the external storage on the displaying unit are displayed for selection when the external storage is connected to the image forming device, and file names of image data stored in the internal storage are displayed when the external storage is not connected to the image forming device. A reprinting unit performs a reprinting operation based on the selected image data. | 08-21-2008 |
20080204805 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF USER PREFERENCE FOR PRINTER SETTING - A method is described for automatically predicting user-preferred printer settings based on past user behavior. A driver service module maintains an application/driver/user (ADU) settings database that stores printer settings associated with the application that initiated the print job, the printer driver and versions thereof, and (in a multiple user environment) the user's identity. Each time a print job is initiated, the driver service module analyzes the ADU database to determine a predicted user-preferred setting. The user may manually change the setting and confirm it, and the driver service module stores the user confirmed setting in the ADU database for future use. The method can transfer user-preferred settings associated with one application or one printer driver (or a version thereof) to another application or another printer driver (or another version thereof). It further allows user preference information to be accessed or transferred over a network. | 08-28-2008 |
20080204806 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - A controller ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080204807 | PRINT PROCESSING EXECUTION APPARATUS, HISTORY INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD,PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A print processing execution apparatus includes a restriction information acquisition unit configured to acquire restriction information including processing information, a print processing execution unit configured to execute print processing based on a job, a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition for storing history information related to the job is satisfied, a storage control unit configured to store the history information in a storage unit if the determination unit determines that the condition for storing history information is satisfied, and a processing unit configured to execute processing based on the processing information included in the restriction information if the determination unit determines that the condition for storing history information is not satisfied. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212135 | Object image print service system - In a three-dimensional object image print service system capable of printing out a desired three-dimensional object image, a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a three-dimensional object image generator for generating a three-dimensional object image, based on instructions from an input device operated by a user and a three-dimensional object image generation program previously provided. The three-dimensional image display device further includes a selector for selecting arbitrary part of the three-dimensional object image generated based on instructions from the user, and a transition information generator for generating transition information of a three-dimensional object image representing the selected arbitrary part of the three-dimensional object image. The three-dimensional object image arbitrarily selected by the user can be reproduced based on the transition information and the three-dimensional object image generation program. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212136 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a digital multi-function peripheral, image data to be output and first log information are generated based on an image forming job. Second log information embedded as digital watermark information is detected from the image data, and the reliability of the digital watermark information is computed. If the reliability is high, the first log information is held in a property storage unit | 09-04-2008 |
20080212137 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming device includes a control unit configured to control by sorting common setting information valid among a plurality of devices and specific setting information valid for a specific device, an internal storage device configured to store setting data that includes a pair of setting data of identification information indicating a type of setting item and setting values, an external storage device controller configured to control to input and output the setting data with a detachable external storage device, and a selective-write device configured to select and write the setting data read from the external storage device based on the predetermined criteria. | 09-04-2008 |
20080218798 | Image Processing Apparatus, Data Processing Method and Data Processing Program - An image processing apparatus comprises a first storage area that stores in itself original data to be copied; a copier that copies the original data to a second storage area that is shared and allowed to be accessed by a plurality of users belonging to one same group, by storing reference information pointing to the original data stored in the first storage area, in the second storage area; a judger that judges whether or not all of access judgment target users who are the group users sharing the second storage area or preliminarily specified users, make access to the reference information stored by the copier in the second storage area; and a controller that suspends execution of an instruction given to change the original data for the access judgment target users so that the original data could be provided to all of them, if the judger judges that only some of the access judgment target users has made access to the reference information when the instruction to change the original data is given, and then, cancels the suspension after the original data is provided to all of the access judgment target users. | 09-11-2008 |
20080218799 | Extended COB-USB With Dual-Personality Contacts - A dual-personality extended USB (EUSB) system supports both USB and EUSB memory cards using an extended 9-pin EUSB socket. Each EUSB memory card includes a PCBA having four standard USB metal contact pads disposed on an upper side of a PCB, and several extended purpose contact springs that extend through openings defined in the PCB. Passive components are mounted on a lower surface of the PCB using SMT methods, and IC dies are mounted using COB methods, and then the components and IC dies are covered by a plastic molded housing. The extended 9-pin EUSB socket includes standard USB contacts and extended use contacts that communicate with the PCBA through the standard USB metal contacts and the contact springs. The PCBA includes dual-personality electronics for USB and EUSB communications. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225337 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a storing unit in which registered medium information is stored, indicating a set of registered recording media uses, which uses are permitted by the information processing device. A checking unit checks usability of a removable recording medium attached to the information processing device by comparing the registered medium information with registered device information acquired from the recording medium attached to the information processing device and indicating a set of registered information processing devices, each of which permits use of the recording medium in the registered information processing device. A usability control unit manages use of the recording medium in the information processing device according to a result of the checking. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225338 | Computer-connectable portable memory device - A computer-connectable portable memory device is specifically adapted for storing digital data files for the purpose of transferring the files to other equipment and/or displaying the files. The device has program code permanently residing therein and causing the device to identify itself as a printer when connected to a multi-purpose computer. | 09-18-2008 |
20080231900 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention allows a printing process to be released from application software earlier. At the start of printing, the size of an available area in a RAM | 09-25-2008 |
20080239393 | Cyclical Image Buffer - A storage buffer attached to an image processor for stereo image processing. The processor compares a first image and a second image. The storage buffer stores image data of the second image. The storage buffer includes: a data-shifting-hardware mechanism which while the processor compares a patch of the first image to a swath of the second image, the data shifting mechanism using hardware within the storage buffer shifts at least a portion of the swath within the storage buffer. The data-shifting hardware mechanism includes preferably digital multiplexers with respective selectable inputs from adjacent and non-adjacent columns of data within the storage buffer and selectable inputs from adjacent rows of data within the storage buffer. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239394 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processor includes a first dither data memory storing a first dither matrix, a second dither data memory storing a second dither matrix, a selecting unit selecting one of the first dither matrix and the second dither matrix, and a converting unit converting multi-value image data to binary data by comparing density of the multi-value image data to the threshold value set in corresponding element of the one of the first dither matrix and the second dither matrix selected by the selecting unit. The second dither matrix is configured of a plurality of sub-dither matrices. Each sub-dither matrix has a plurality of elements each assigned with a threshold value in a range from a maximum threshold value to a minimum threshold value. A set of threshold values from the minimum threshold value to a predetermined intermediate threshold value is assigned to elements in corresponding locations of each of the plurality of sub-dither matrices. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239395 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD AND IMAGE DATA TRANSFER CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a volatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a nonvolatile recording medium that stores image data in itself; a transfer portion that transfers image data page by page between the volatile recording medium and the nonvolatile recording medium; a controller that suspends transfer of one page of first image data, lets transfer of one page of second image data interrupt, and executes transfer of that page of the second image data on a priority basis, if a request to transfer that page of the second image data is issued with a higher priority level than that page of the first image data while that page of the first image data is being transferred by the transfer portion, and then, resumes transfer of the untransferred portion of that page of the first image data after that page of the second image data is completely transferred. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239396 | Method of creating decompressed data - A method may be provided with a first downloading step of downloading a predetermined size of first compressed data of a first image object which is to be included in both a first band of print data and a second band of the print data, a first decompression step of creating first decompressed data by decompressing the first compressed data having the predetermined size downloaded in the first downloading step, a determination step of determining whether all the first decompressed data corresponding to the first band has been created, a repeating step of repeating the first downloading step, the first decompression step, and the determination step in a case where a negative determination is obtained in the determination step, a second downloading step of downloading second compressed data of a second image object in a case where a positive determination is obtained in the determination step, and a second decompression step of creating second decompressed data by decompressing the second compressed data downloaded in the second downloading step. | 10-02-2008 |
20080246996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Information about a component in an image forming apparatus, such as the remaining life span thereof, is written into a memory attached to the component so as not to exert influences on a computation processing work by the image forming apparatus, such as a copying operation. | 10-09-2008 |
20080246997 | Table interpolation methods and systems - A control system is provided. This system generally includes a table datastore that stores data in a table format wherein the table format includes a plurality of zones. A data storage module stores learned data to one or more of the plurality of zones. A data access module generates a table output by retrieving the learned data from one or more of the plurality of zones and interpolating between the learned data. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252930 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device is disclosed that is able to prevent halt of operations due to full memory occupation, and prevent the full occupation of the memory. The image forming device includes a reading unit; an image data storage unit; a vacancy waiting unit that, when allocating a storage area for storing image data in the image data storage unit, waits until the storage size of a vacancy in the image data storage unit becomes greater than a predetermined value when allocation of the storage area fails; a failure processing unit that, when allocating the storage area for storing the image data in the image data storage unit, performs failure processing when allocation of the storage area fails; and a control unit that controls one of the vacancy waiting unit and the failure processing unit according to image forming conditions in the image forming device. | 10-16-2008 |
20080266604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to implement a high-speed printing operation based on print data attached with a digital signature. The apparatus comprises: a storage section to store print data; a, digital signature analyzing section to analyze a digital signature; a language analyzing section to analyze the print data; an image processing section to create bitmap data; a printing section to implement a printing operation; and a control section that selectively conducts either a first controlling operation or a second controlling operation. In the first controlling operation, the digital signature analyzing section and the language analyzing section respectively conduct the digital signature analyzing operation and the language analyzing operation in parallel, while, in the second controlling operation, the digital signature analyzing section conducts the digital signature analyzing operation at first, and the language analyzing section conduct the language analyzing operation after the digital signature analyzing operation is completed. | 10-30-2008 |
20080278755 | DYNAMIC RANKING OF SERVICE ACTIONS - Systems and methods for dynamically updating service ranks for a plurality of service actions for an electronic system are disclosed. A central computing system may receive a plurality of service actions prioritized in an order based on a service rank associated with each service action. Each service action may correspond to one or more operations performed to attempt to repair an electronic system. The central computing system may receive feedback information for one or more service actions from a first user pertaining at least to whether each service action successfully repaired a fault for the electronic system. The service rank for each service action may be updated based on at least the feedback information, and the order for the service actions may be modified based on the updated service ranks. The central computing system may provide one or more service actions to a second user based on the modified order. | 11-13-2008 |
20080285080 | IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE DATA SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus capable of managing image data includes a display unit configured to display image data whose predetermined date is known among image data stored in a storage unit, and a setting unit configured to set a date to another image data using the image data displayed on the display unit. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285081 | Data Processing Apparatus and Method, Program, and Storage Medium - Disclosed herein is a data processing apparatus that sets identification information for identifying each of a plurality of contents based on metadata added to each of the contents. The apparatus includes: title information acquisition means for acquiring title information of each of the contents, the title information concerning a title of the content and being included in the metadata; information extraction means for comparing the title information of each of the contents to extract a part of the title information that is common to all of the contents; and identification information setting means for setting the identification information of each of the contents based on the other part of the title information than the part of the title information that is common to all of the contents. | 11-20-2008 |
20080291496 | Image Forming Apparatus - A CPU perform the steps of: | 11-27-2008 |
20080297848 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which inputs a keyword; a preparation unit which prepares list data relating to a print file containing the keyword among a plurality of print files stored in a storage unit; and a printing unit that prints a list based on the list data. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297849 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus storing an image data to an external memory medium connected to the image processing apparatus is provided. Where there is not enough usable capacity in the external memory medium, the image processing apparatus generates medium identification information and stores the generated medium identification information to the external memory medium. After a user detaches the external memory medium from the image processing apparatus and uses his or her computer to delete or move unnecessary files in the external memory medium to increase the usable capacity therein, the user attaches the external memory medium to the image processing apparatus again. At this moment, the external memory medium is authenticated by the medium identification information stored therein. Thus, this authentication performed using the medium identification information prevents a third person from obtaining the image data of the user while the user is away from the image processing apparatus. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304106 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises a transfer processing section, a plurality of image processing sections, and a control section. The transfer processing section is for transferring image data to a memory. The image processing section is for carrying out an image process with respect to image data, and writing, into the memory, the image data that has been subjected to the image process. The control section is for controlling the transfer processing section and the plurality of image processing sections. The control section includes: a selecting section that selects two or more processing sections from among the transfer processing section and the plurality of image processing sections; and an initialization control section that causes the processing sections selected by the selecting section to carry out an initialization process with respect to the memory. This makes it possible to carry out an initialization process with respect to the memory at a high speed, without causing an increase in cost. | 12-11-2008 |
20080309978 | Multi-function device - A multi-function device capable of performing at least a first function and a second function, the multi-function device includes a function performing unit that operates to perform the first function and the second function, a memory that stores use condition data including a setting of use condition for each of the first function and the second function for each user, an input unit that inputs a setting of the use condition for the operation of the function performing unit for each user, and a controller that is operable to reflect the setting of the use condition inputted by the input unit to the setting of the use condition for each of the first function and the second function included in the use condition data. | 12-18-2008 |
20080316533 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus comprises an image former that prints target data on a sheet, a first judger that judges a supply unit that is replaceably loaded thereon and has a memory storing identification information uniquely given to the supply unit and information about a plurality of vendors providing the supply unit, is whether or not a reproduced product, an accessor that accesses a server owned by a vendor supplying the supply unit according to the information about the vendors providing the supply unit, which is stored in the memory of the supply unit, if the first judger judges that the supply unit is a reproduced product, a second judger that judges whether or not the identification information stored in the memory of the supply unit is registered in the server owned by the vendor supplying the supply unit, which is accessed by the accessor. Print operations performed by the image former are limited if the second judger judges that the identification information is not registered in the server, meanwhile, print operations performed by the image former are permitted if the second judger judges that the identification information is registered in the server. | 12-25-2008 |
20090002761 | Predictive DMA data transfer
- A compression and storage device comprises: a compressor configured to compress data; a central processing unit (CPU) configured to control storage of the compressed data and to perform at least one additional task; an electronic memory organized as storage blocks each having a storage block size; a direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to operate autonomously from the CPU to transfer a current transfer block of compressed data into one or more storage blocks of the electronic memory; and a transfer block size estimator configured to select a transfer block size for the current transfer block based on previous DMA transfers of compressed data, the selected transfer block size being generally different from the storage block size. | 01-01-2009 |
20090002762 | Image processing apparatus, computer readable recording medium stored with image processing program, and image processing method - An image processing apparatus applies a compression process to each of a plurality of areas within a page independently on a specified page of image data consisting of a plurality of pages, and stores thus obtained compressed image data in a storage unit. Next, the image processing apparatus identifies an area as a unique area if the area has different contents when a plurality of areas within the specified page are compared with a plurality of areas within a page different from the specified page respectively between the corresponding areas. The image processing apparatus corrects unique compressed image data among compressed image data of the specified page stored in the storage unit that corresponds to the unique area to be identical to corrected unique compressed image data obtained by compressing the unique area of a page different from the specified page, and outputs the corrected compressed image data to a printer. | 01-01-2009 |
20090002763 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus (information processing apparatus) is capable of storing image data (data) generated by reading a document image into a storage device (storage medium) such as a USB memory. When the storage device cannot store the image data due to a shortage of capacity, the image processing apparatus transfers the image data to a transfer destination indicated by transfer destination information stored in the storage device, and stores the image data in the transfer destination. The transfer destination of the image data is a storing section in the image processing apparatus, or a PC (storage apparatus) etc. connected to the image processing apparatus through a communication network. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009809 | Image forming apparatus and job information management method - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first storage section to store a job information item of a job whose execution has been completed; a nonvolatile second storage section having a larger capacity for storing the job information item than the first storage section; and a control section to store the job information item into the first storage section and the second storage section to manage the job information item. | 01-08-2009 |
20090015867 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ACTIVATING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus, method, system, and computer program and product each capable of activating an image forming apparatus according to configuration information approved by an authorized user are disclosed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090021789 | Image forming apparatus performing function related to external apparatus - A USB memory stores, as function information, a function of processing a document and a place where the document is registered. An MFP includes a read unit for reading function information from the USB memory inserted into the MFP, a specifying unit for specifying required information from among the function information, an acquisition unit for accessing a server with the use of the specified information to acquire a target document to be processed, a setting unit for making a setting for performing a PullPrint function, which corresponds to the aforementioned function, with the use of the information, and a print control unit for executing a process for printing the acquired document on the basis of the setting made by the setting unit. | 01-22-2009 |
20090027726 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A image processing apparatus including a log setting module that sets a log recording setting corresponding to each of a plurality of processes executed at the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus also includes a memory for storing the log recording setting, and a module that determines, based on the log recording setting, whether log information should be recorded. | 01-29-2009 |
20090033998 | Image data processing apparatus and method - An image data processing apparatus, increase: a reader that reads image data included in an image file in read units of a specified data length from an external storage medium storing the image file; a storage that temporarily saves the image data read by the reader; and a data processor that requests image data to the reader and applying a specified data processing to the image data given from the reader in response to the request; wherein the reader reads image data requested by the data processor from the storage and supplies them to the data processor and, if the image data requested by the data processor cannot be read from the storage, reads image data of a specified data length including the image data from the storage medium and supplies them to the data processor, and the reader optimizes the read unit according to the form of the request from the data processor. | 02-05-2009 |
20090040559 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A storing unit stores therein correspondence information between a pixel value of a pixel and a layout and pixel values of a plurality of pixels obtained by increasing a resolution of the pixel for each main scanning direction. A replacing unit replaces each pixel of image data input from an input unit with a layout and pixel values of a plurality of pixels based on the correspondence information for each main scanning direction. Each of a plurality of writing units having different main scanning directions performs a writing process using the layout and the pixel values of the pixels replaced by the replacing unit following each main scanning direction. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040560 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image reading apparatus comprising a conveying unit configured to convey a document; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document conveyed by the conveying unit; a storage unit configured to store data of the image read by the reading unit; a transfer unit configured to transfer the data stored in the storage unit to an external unit during a reading operation of the reading unit; and a reading control unit configured to control the reading unit to perform or stop the reading operation according to a threshold value related to a free space available for storing the data in the storage unit. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046322 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT-DATA GENERATION METHOD, MAP-INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A data storing unit stores therein first data that includes replaceable data and can be printed by a printing unit or generate print data to be printed. A map-information storing unit stores therein data identification information for identifying the replaceable data and its position in the first data in association with each other. A replacement-data obtaining unit obtains the data identification information and replacement data for replacing the replaceable data. A data generating unit generates second data in which the replaceable data is replaced with the replacement data at the position corresponding to the data identification information. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046323 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - There is provided an image processing device, comprising: an input unit configured to accept a user instruction to designate first image data; and an image addition unit configured to add the first image data corresponding to the user instruction to second image data, as a thumbnail for the second image data. | 02-19-2009 |
20090051969 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME, AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A terminal apparatus includes an interface unit connected to an image forming apparatus, and a controller to convert a file into print data page by page before a file print command is input and to transmit the converted print data to the image forming apparatus when a preset event occurs in the file. Therefore, a user prepares a document which is highly likely to be printed, so that a print delay time may be reduced and a printing speed may increase. | 02-26-2009 |
20090059295 | Plotting Device and Image Data Creation Method - When a pixel pitch formed on a substrate is different from a micro mirror read pitch, image data is stored as divided image data having continuous memory addresses in a memory. It is possible to read data from the divided image data by memory read means rapidly (in a short time) so as to create mirror data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090059296 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FACSIMILE MACHINE, AND COPIER - An image processing apparatus includes an attaching portion to which a portable external storage medium can be removably attached, an output unit arranged to output image information, a writing unit arranged to store set output conditions and an image storage file in which the image information is stored in the external storage medium when the output unit outputs the image information, and a reading unit arranged to read data from the external storage medium. The output conditions and the image storage file stored in the external storage medium attached to the attaching portion can be read by the reading unit, and the image information extracted from the image storage file can be output by the output unit in accordance with the output conditions. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067003 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing system and a control method thereof are provided, which presents an appropriate image format for the image data to be stored. To accomplish this, in an image processing system comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses and storage apparatuses, the image forming apparatuses each decide priority scores indicating priority order of each image format from the image processing information that indicates image formats of image data supported at each image forming apparatus. Further, the image forming apparatuses show the priority order based on the decided priority scores, and at the same time generates a selection screen for the user to select the image format of the image data and display it on the display apparatus provided in the image forming apparatus. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073490 | COMMUNICATION INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A communication information processing device that includes a reception component, an image processing component, a memory component and a control component is provided. The reception component receives communication information through an external communication line. The image processing component performs image processing on image information. The memory component is provided for memorizing image information for image processing by the image processing component, and that memorizes image information and the communication information received by the reception component. The control component, when a pre-specified setting condition is satisfied, controls the memory component so as to delete the communication information memorized in the memory component and to memorize image information to be used by the image processing component as a priority. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073491 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A storage unit stores therein license information that indicates whether an application is licensed and permission information that indicates whether an application is allowed to start. A starting unit starts an application for which the permission information is stored in the storage unit. A determining unit acquires license information of a running application from the storage unit and determines whether acquired license information indicates that the application is licensed. An outputting unit outputs error information when the acquired license information does not indicate that the running application is licensed. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A storage medium is inserted in a storage-medium drive unit in a removable manner, storing information including setting information on a target program, identification information for identifying the storage medium, and electronic signature information generated from the setting information and the identification information. A launching unit performs an authentication of the setting information using the identification information and the electronic signature information read by a reading unit, and when the authentication is successful, reads the target program from a storage unit and launches the target program according to the setting information. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073493 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In an image forming system for an image forming apparatus for forming an image according to the image forming system under an instruction of a terminal unit connected thereto by way of a network to instruct a formation of an image according to output data, the terminal unit sets an access information such as permitting a particular person to access the output data. The image forming apparatus compares the user information with the access information and outputs an image only when the output user conforms to the particular person. The terminal unit further changes the access information so that a second particular user other than the particular user can temporarily access to the output data and the image forming apparatus can output an image by the use of the output data also when the access information conforms to the second particular user. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080024 | Printing Control Method Capable of Reducing Printing Memory Requirement - The present invention belongs to the field of printing control technology, and is especially one kind of printing control method with reducing printing memory requirement. The available printing technology always needs complicated segment forming gratings in advance and occupying great amount of memory. The printing control method of the present invention includes interpreting the page data as banded intermediate format data, calculating the time for forming grating of each band of the intermediate format data, pre-analyzing the bands with time for forming grating greater than the printing time, and arranging the job of forming grating of the complicated bands in the idle print time as far as possible. The said method can reduce the band number of forming gratings in advance and reduce the printing memory requirement. | 03-26-2009 |
20090086271 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed an image forming apparatus to form an image on a basis of an image data file stored in an external memory, including: an expansion memory to expand the image data file; a memory residual capacity calculating section to calculate a residual capacity of the expansion memory; a memory occupying amount predicting section to predict a memory occupying amount necessary to expand the image data file into the expansion memory; a specification section to specify an image formable image data file which is processable by the image forming apparatus among the image data files stored in the external memory on a basis of the residual capacity of the expansion memory and the memory occupying amount, and a display controlling section to display a file name of the specified image formable image data file in a display section. | 04-02-2009 |
20090103135 | USB PRINT - The present invention is directed to a system and user interface wherein a multifunction copier, equipped with a Universal Serial Bus port, accepts data directly from a USB-Data Storage Device (USB-DSD) for the purpose of printing, e-mailing, and faxing. The system contains a copier containing a computer-controller having at least one USB port interface. The controller has a service that can either be enabled or disabled by a system administrator. The service is capable of performing email, printing and facsimile functions. When a user inserts a USB-DSD into the USB port on the controller, the service presents the user with the three options stated above. Once the user selects the desired function, the service then invokes a document conversion utility, which scans the USB-DSD and displays the supported files found on the DSD. Each desired function will have multiple options for a user to choose. For example, when the printing option is selected, the service will present to the user on the display choices such as duplex, portrait/landscape, multipage, number of prints and the like. | 04-23-2009 |
20090103136 | USB PRINT - The present invention is directed to a system and user interface wherein a multifunction copier, equipped with a Universal Serial Bus port, accepts data directly from a USB-Data Storage Device (USB-DSD) for the purpose of printing, e-mailing, and faxing. The system contains a copier containing a computer-controller having at least one USB port interface. The controller has a service that can either be enabled or disabled by a system administrator. The service is capable of performing email, printing and facsimile functions. When a user inserts a USB-DSD into the USB port on the controller, the service presents the user with the three options stated above. Once the user selects the desired function, the service then invokes a document conversion utility, which scans the USB-DSD and displays the supported files found on the DSD. Each desired function will have multiple options for a user to choose. For example, when the printing option is selected, the service will present to the user on the display choices such as duplex, portrait/landscape, multipage, number of prints and the like. | 04-23-2009 |
20090109486 | Printer, control method of a printer and computer-readable recording medium - In a printer, when a file is received from a personal computer connected by way of a USB port, an ordinary storage region in a FLASH ROM is recognized as a removable drive by the personal computer, which disables the writing management by a management table for managing the writing operation into the ordinary storage region in the FLASH ROM by USB standard, the received file is stored in a temporary storage region in a RAM, the attribute of the received file is determined, and when the received file is a printing file, the received file is transferred from the temporary storage region in the RAM, and written into a position in a printing memory layout region in the FLASH ROM obtained by referring to an address table. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109487 | Printing Apparatus, Data Storage Medium, Interface Device, Printer Control Method, And Interface Control Method - An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory | 04-30-2009 |
20090116067 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ACTIVATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THAT CAUSES COMPUTER TO PERFORM THE METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an apparatus main unit control software storage unit configured to store new apparatus main unit control software used to control a main unit of the image processing apparatus on a non-volatile storage device, a combination appropriateness determination unit configured to determine whether a combination of the new apparatus main unit control software and post-processing apparatus control software that currently operates on a post-processing apparatus is appropriate based on version information about the post-processing apparatus control software used to control the post-processing apparatus, which is operable in combination with the new apparatus main unit control software, and version information about the post-processing apparatus control software that currently operates on the post-processing apparatus, a determination result storage unit configured to store a result of the determination by the combination appropriateness determination unit, and an activation unit configured to activate the apparatus main unit control software according to the determination result. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122345 | Image forming apparatus - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image storing section to store input image data; an image outputting section to form and output an image onto a recording medium based on the image data stored in the image storing section; a termination instructing section to instruct a termination of an operation; a display section to display a selection screen for selecting any one of operation items including at least “forcible termination” and “save the current state and termination” when the termination of the operation is instructed on the termination instructing section during an image forming operation in the image outputting section or during a standby state for the image forming operation; an operation section to select any one of the operation items displayed on the selection screen; and a control section to control the operation of the image forming apparatus according to the operation item selected on the operation section. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122346 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image read-out through a scanner section is stored in a memory device | 05-14-2009 |
20090122347 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus places restriction on a print job. A memory stores a plurality of items of first print job information and corresponding print restriction levels. A print job information obtaining section obtains a plurality of items of second print job information from the print job. A restriction level selecting section reads the print restriction levels from the memory by using the items of second print information. The restriction level selecting section selects the highest one of the print restriction levels. A printing section prints print data contained in the print job at the selected highest one of the print restriction levels. The second print restriction levels may be lower in restriction level than the first print restriction levels. The user may be advised of a third printing format if the highest one of the first print restriction levels indicates that the print job is restricted. | 05-14-2009 |
20090147311 | Image Processing Device, Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Method - An image processing device includes: a first memory unit which receives screen data selected from a plurality of screen data stored in a second memory unit and transferred to the first memory unit, and stores the received screen data; and a third memory unit which has a first area for receiving first line data as line unit data of screen data stored in the first memory unit and transferred to the first area and for storing the first line data, and a second area for receiving second line data as line unit data of the screen data stored in the first memory unit and transferred to the second area and for storing the second line data. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153903 | IMAGE INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING - An image information storage device is configured such that, when an output control unit makes the output unit output an image represented by first image data stored in an image data storage, the output control unit makes the output unit also output the registration information which has been associated with the first image data, or when the output control unit makes the output unit output first registration information stored in the registration information storage unit, the output control unit makes the output unit also output an image represented by image data which has been associated with first registration information. Further, when there is an input specifying association of the first registration information stored in the registration information storage unit with second image data, the registration control unit associates the first registration information with the first image data and the second image data, and stores in the registration information storage unit. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161162 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: an input section which inputs image data; a memory section which memorizes non-volatily various data including image data inputted by the input section; a cache memory; a control section which carries out an asynchronous operation which writes data to the cache memory in stead of writing to the memory section as well as carries out a sync processing which transfers and stores the data of the cache memory to the memory section based on a predetermined condition; and a detecting section which detects a preparation for carrying out a shut down operation of a power of the image processing apparatus, wherein the control section carries out the sync processing in case when the preparation operation is detected by the detecting section. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168106 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit, a first designation unit, a first storage unit, and a reading control unit. The reading unit generates an image by reading a plurality of original documents. The first designation unit designates a reading condition with respect to a portion of the plurality of original documents in a case of reading. The first storage unit stores the reading condition, corresponding to the portion received by the first designation unit, as reading condition information. The reading control unit reads the reading condition information stored in the first storage unit and controls the reading unit based on the reading condition information read. | 07-02-2009 |
20090185224 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus | 07-23-2009 |
20090190177 | Method Forming Apparatus and Image Information Saving Method - An image forming apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises an image reading unit that reads an image from a document to generate base image data which matches predetermined default reading conditions; a reading condition identifying unit that identifies reading condition settings specified by a user in response to when the image is read; and an information saving unit that saves the base image data and the reading condition settings identified by the reading condition identifying unit in association with each other as saved-image information. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190178 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image memory to store image data to form an image with pixels aligned in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction; a print head; and a correction section to perform correction processing on the image data to correct misalignment which occurs when an image is formed, wherein the correction section includes: a memory which can perform burst transfer; a first control section; line buffers; and a second control section, wherein the first control section successively writes the image data in the burst access unit in the memory and reads the image data in the burst access unit while controlling the address of the memory according to a first control signal generated based on previously set information concerning correction; and the second control section selects image data to output according to a second control signal generated based on the information. | 07-30-2009 |
20090201553 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a read unit to read an image and to generate temporal image data from the image, a capacity specifying unit to specify a specified capacity for final image data, and a generation condition setting unit to set a generation condition for generating the final image data from the temporal image data, the final image data not exceeding the specified capacity is generated, and the capacity of the generated final image data is displayed. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201554 | IMAGE PROCESSING ENABLING REDUCTION OF PROCESSING TIME FOR DATA CONVERSION - A reference level of data required for outputting (printing, sending and so on) in accordance with output configuration settings is set. It is determined whether or not a level of target data to be output which is stored in a storage is lower than the reference level. When the level of the target data is lower than the reference level, the data level is increased in stages. The data of the level raised to the reference level is output in accordance with the output configuration settings. | 08-13-2009 |
20090219576 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is equipped with at least a first analyzing section to analyze first print setting information included in the print data and described outside the main body of the document data, a second analyzing section to analyze second print setting information included in the main body of the document data, a memory section having a memory area to memorize print setting information, a print setting control section to update print setting information stored in advance as default data in the memory area for each setting item on the basis of the first print setting information and thereafter to allow print setting information of setting items in the predetermined memory area to be updated further on the basis of the second print setting information except the setting items in which the print setting information has been updated on the basis of the first print setting information. | 09-03-2009 |
20090237734 | Methods and Systems for Print-Data Rendering - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for generating rendered data for printing. | 09-24-2009 |
20090237735 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method includes storing image data in a storage unit; setting a common region in the storage unit, the common region including an input image data storage region and an output image data storage region; sequentially storing the image data that is compressed at a preset compression ratio in the input image data storage region; sequentially expanding the image data stored in the input image data storage region; temporarily storing the expanded image data in the output image data storage region; and controlling allocation of the input image data storage region and the output image data storage region in the common region. In an embodiment, the allocation of the input image data storage region and the output image data storage region in the common region may be determined depending on the compression ratio of the sequentially inputted image data. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244621 | METHOD FOR CANCELING A PRINT JOB SUBMITTED TO A PRINTER - A print job canceling method for a printer is described and is especially useful in a printer with relatively small buffer memory. When a print job is cancelled by the user using the printer's control panel, this method allows the printer controller to receive additional print jobs while the current job is being cancelled, without having to notify the host to stop sending the current print job. The printer controller reduces the memory allocated to the job being cancelled. The printer controller continues to accept data for the current job from the host, but does not print the received data. The data is subsequently flushed from the memory. The printer controller also assigns a lower priority to the print job being cancelled. Meanwhile, the remaining memory can be used to receive and print additional print jobs. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244622 | Systems and Methods for Rendering Print Data - Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments presented provide methods for rendering print data. In some embodiments of methods for rendering print data comprising at least one compressed image object may include generating a display list by parsing the print data. The compressed image object may be identified in the display list by a reference to the at least one compressed image object. In some embodiments, the display list may be rasterized and converted to a bitmap. In some embodiments, the reference to the at least one compressed image object may be used to retrieve the at least one compressed image object. The retrieved compressed image object may be decoded and rasterized to generate a bitmap of the decoded image. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244623 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for outputting images in an output unit of multiple sets each including multiple pages with specified order, having: a storage section which stores page data including identification information; a reading-out section which reads out the page data according to the output unit; an image forming section which, based on the page data from the reading-out section, sequentially forms images on multiple recording sheets; a control section which executes a calculation processing that depends on the read out order of the page data, for each output unit, by using the identification information; memory sections which memorize results of the calculation processing for the output units of nth set and other than nth set; wherein the control section determines whether images are correctly formed on the recording sheets for the output unit of other than nth set, based on comparison of the results of calculation processing. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244624 | PRINTER AND ITS CONTROLLING METHOD - The printer according to the present invention comprises: a plurality of interfaces for respectively accessing a plurality of storage media having subject data to be printed stored therein; an exclusive controlling element for determining, when access can be made to storage media loaded in two or more interfaces out of the plurality of interfaces, one interface out of the two or more interfaces as a valid interface; an image processing element for reading subject data to be printed from a storage medium loaded in the valid interface determined by the exclusive controlling element; and a printing processing element for printing the subject data that was read by the image processing element. Thus, it is possible to provide a printer having great versatility so that various kinds of storage media can be used therewith and having great usability for individual users. | 10-01-2009 |
20090257091 | System And Method For Disseminating Digital Images - A method of distributing digital images includes uploading one or more digital image files corresponding to one or more digital images to an interactive kiosk; receiving user input of contact information for one or more third party recipients; and sending notice to the one or more third party recipients that the one or more digital images are available. A photo printing and networking system includes a kiosk for uploading one or more digital image files corresponding to one or more digital images; a kiosk network in electronic communication with the kiosk; and data transfer means for transferring the one or more digital image files from the kiosk to a third party recipient via the kiosk network. | 10-15-2009 |
20090268248 | CONTROL APPARATUS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An apparatus has an external memory control apparatus for controlling rewriting of a memory. The external memory control apparatus allows the memory to store the number of formed monochromatic images and changes a rewriting frequency of the memory according to the number of formed monochromatic images. | 10-29-2009 |
20090279141 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an image processing apparatus, an image memory handler (IMH) sets an engine descriptor for an engine unit and a virtual descriptor for a virtual video input driver, thereby controlling moving of image data from a local memory (MEM) to a hard disk drive (HDD). In a process in which the engine unit writes the image data into the MEM in such a manner defined by settings described in the engine descriptor, the virtual video input driver handles occurrence of an interrupt to a PCI direct access in such a manner that the image data is moved from the MEM to the HDD properly. | 11-12-2009 |
20090284794 | DOCUMENT PROCESSOR, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, PRINT INSTRUCTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND PRINT INSTRUCTION METHOD - A document processor includes a reception unit that receives document data, the document data being broadcasted to another document processor, a data storage unit that stores the document data received by the reception unit, a document data output unit that outputs the document data stored in the data storage unit, an instruction accepting unit that accepts an instruction to execute output based on the document data stored in the data storage unit, a controller that controls the document data output unit to output the document data stored in the data storage unit upon reception of an output instruction from the instruction accepting unit, and a notifying unit that notifies another document processor which stores the document data being broadcasted to the another document processor of an output executed based on the document data. | 11-19-2009 |
20090290195 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system including a management device, an image forming apparatus including an auxiliary storage device, and a plurality of information processing devices, which are coupled to one another via a network, the image forming system being configured as follows. The management device is designed to: acquire a box information file regarding a document box created on the auxiliary storage device from the image forming apparatus via the network; and transmit the box information file to each of the plurality of information processing devices in its original format and a state after conversion thereof into a predetermined format. The plurality of information processing devices each control a printer driver compatible with the image forming apparatus to read the received box information file. | 11-26-2009 |
20090316209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage section to store data; and a control section to detect whether a data access to the storage section exists or not, to detect whether unnecessary data stored in the storage section exists or not, and to overwrite/delete the unnecessary data in a case where the data access does not exist and the unnecessary data exists. | 12-24-2009 |
20090323120 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A reception controller receives print data. A volatile memory stores program information for performing image formation. An image forming unit forms an image based on the print data. An image formation controller receives the program information and controlling the image forming unit. A power supply stops supply of power to the volatile memory, image forming controller and image formation unit during supply power to the reception controller when a normal mode is switched to a power saving mode. An auxiliary volatile memory is supplied with power. An information saving path is for saving information in the volatile memory to the auxiliary volatile memory. In response to a detection of the switching from the power saving mode to the normal mode, the reception controller instructs the power supply to supply power to the image formation controller, volatile memory and image forming unit, and transfers the program information in the auxiliary volatile memory to the volatile memory. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002263 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus has a read unit to read a document image and generate image data of the document image, a memory management unit to manage a storage unit which is segmented into storage regions, and an engine to write the image data generated by the read unit to the storage unit. The engine acquires setting information related to writing of the image data from the memory management unit to the storage unit, and writes the image data to the storage unit based on the setting information that is acquired. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002264 | MEMORY READING AND WRITING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method is disclosed by which B×n bits, including dummy bits and address data bits in the stated order are transmitted to a storage unit in series, B bits of transmission data is then transmitted to the storage unit in series, and the transmission data are written in the storage unit. The B×n bits including the dummy bits, a number of which dummy bits is smaller by one, address data bits and one dummy bit in the stated order are transmitted in series. A signal is given by a storage unit in response to the data transmitted to the storage unit, and a group of B bits of the signal is processed as data read from the storage unit after a last bit of a group of B bits of the signal indicates address reception completion. | 01-07-2010 |
20100007923 | PRINTER CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, PRINTER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, READER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A printer control apparatus can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enables efficient transfer of image data from the reader to the printer via an image memory of the controller. The controller receives image data from a reader and temporarily stores the same in an image memory, and transmits the stored image data to a printer. The controller acquires a reader processing speed from the reader and a printer processing speed from the printer, and determines, while the image data is being written to the image memory, timing for transmitting the image data written in the memory to the printer according to a difference between the reader processing speed and the printer processing speed and a sub-scan size of the image data. | 01-14-2010 |
20100027069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus includes a job memory which stores each of image formation jobs, which are received from terminals, in association with a user identifier which identifies a user of a corresponding terminal, an image forming unit which executes the image formation jobs which are stored in the job memory, a user detector which detects a user identifier of each approaching user, and a controller which calculates, upon detection of plural user identifiers by the user detector, elapsed times from reception times of image formation jobs which are stored in the job memory in association with the user identifiers, compares the elapsed times, and controls the image forming unit to preferentially execute the image formation job with a shortest one of the elapsed times. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027070 | LABEL PRINTER - A label printer having a plurality of input devices for inputting information to said label printer where a first input device can be a keyboard, and a second input device can be a connectable external controlling entity; a supply of image receiving medium such as a tape; a printer adapted to print an image on the tape; and a printer controller for controlling the label printer, so that when the label printer is connected the label printer can be operated in a stand alone mode in which information can only be input to said label printer via said first input device, or an external control mode in which information can only be input to said label printer via the connecting device, such that for a predetermined period of time after use in one of the said stand alone mode and the said external control mode, any information input via the input device not in use can not operate the label printer, but after the predetermined period of time information can be input to operate the label printer via either the first input device or the connected second input device. | 02-04-2010 |
20100053684 | PRINTER CARTRIDGE MICROCHIP - Printer cartridge microchips that can be used in conjunction with several different types of printer cartridges and/or printer models or families are described. Several printer cartridge microchips are provided that respond to data or information requests and/or commands from the printer (e.g., the printer processor). If the correct data or information is stored on the microchip, the printer can then function with that particular cartridge. In order to optimize the memory requirements of the microchip, at least one separate read-only memory subunit and at least one writable memory subunit is provided in the memory element. Each of the read-only memory subunits can correspond to a particular printer model or family type. In this manner, several different printer model or family types can function with the use of a single microchip for the printer cartridge. | 03-04-2010 |
20100060933 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus includes DMA control units each of which is provided with DMA controllers. Each DMA controller is provided with a plurality of data buffers respectively corresponding to different addresses in a subscanning direction. Each of a predetermined number of pixel data in a main scanning direction is stored in an associated one of the data buffers. Pixel data stored in each of the data buffers are output to an image memory based on the address in the subscanning direction, which corresponds to the associated data buffer. | 03-11-2010 |
20100079808 | Image-Forming Device Having Index Printing Function - An image-forming device includes: a converting unit; a creating unit; a storing unit; and a replacing unit. The converting unit performs a conversion process to convert a plurality of sets of print data, which are of differing formats from one another, into intermediate data of a common format, the converting unit converting each set of print data into a corresponding set of intermediate data. The creating unit creates page data from the intermediate data in parallel with the conversion process. The printing unit performs an index printing operation based on page data created by the creating unit. The storing unit stores at least one page data creatable range delimiter for the intermediate data by which the creating unit can create the page data from the intermediate data, the storing unit storing one page data creatable range delimiter after the converting unit converts at least a part of one set of print data of one format into a set of intermediate data, from which page data is creatable. The replacing unit is configured so as to be capable of performing a replacement process to replace at least the intermediate data positioned after the page data creatable range delimiter in the print data with substitute data when an error occurs in the print data during the conversion process. | 04-01-2010 |
20100097654 | Computer Readable Storage Medium with Printer Driver Stored Therein - A computer readable storage medium in which a printer driver is stored is provided. The printer driver causes a computer to operate as a computing apparatus including: a memorizing unit that memorizes a plurality of set value combinations in each of which a set value is associated with each setting item; a selection accepting unit that displays information indicating the set value combinations in a selectable manner and accepts selection of at least one set value combination; and a set value changing unit that applies, to a part of setting items for which values have already been set, a set value for a setting item included in the set value combination the selection of which has been accepted by the selection accepting unit so as to effect a change. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103463 | DETERMINING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A SCANNED IMAGE - A method of determining the geographic location of a hardcopy medium having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning a hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; scanning the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; detecting a location feature from the scan of the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; using the location feature to determine the geographic location of the scanned digital image; and storing the determined geographic location of the scanned digital image. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110494 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING PORTABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming method, and an image forming apparatus to perform same, including connecting a portable storage medium to the image forming apparatus, selecting at least one file stored in the portable storage medium, disconnecting the portable storage medium from the image forming apparatus, and performing a job corresponding to the at least one selected file in response to the portable storage medium being disconnected from the image forming apparatus. | 05-06-2010 |
20100123937 | Image Processing Controller and Printing Apparatus - Provided is an image processing controller for controlling a line head having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a non-linear shape, the image processing controller including: a plurality of memory regions which stores raster data; an acquiring section which acquires the raster data; a writing control section which sequentially distributes the acquired raster data to the plurality of memory regions so as to be stored therein; and a reading control section which reads each raster data from the plurality of memory regions and sends the read raster data to the line head so as to control a light emitting state of the light emitting elements, wherein the writing control section determines an address on the memory region storing each raster data in accordance with a resolution in the sub-scanning direction and an arrangement pattern of the light emitting elements arranged in the line head. | 05-20-2010 |
20100141998 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing device includes: an image data division section that divides image data and generates divided image data; a first image processing section that performs image processing on the divided image data; a second image processing section that performs image processing on the divided image data; and an address assignment section that assigns addresses to first division data of the divided image data, which is image-processed by the first image processing section, and second division data of the divided image data which is image-processed by the second image processing section. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141999 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE READING METHOD - An image reading apparatus includes: a sheet feeding device; a sheet feeding control section that controls transport of an original document performed by the sheet feeding device; a reading section that reads the original document so as to output image data; a reading control section that allows the reading section to perform the reading by repeatedly outputting a reading signal to the reading section; a buffer that temporarily stores the image data; and a monitoring section that monitors a volume of the image data stored in the buffer. When the monitoring section determines that the volume of the image data is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the sheet feeding control section accelerates the transport of the original document and maintains the transport at a predetermined speed, and the reading control section starts the output of the reading signal when the transport of the original document is started. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149594 | MEDIA IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WITH SENSOR ARRAY - A printing system includes a media input location for storing a recording medium prior to transport within the printing system for subsequent printing; a light source directed toward an extended region of the media input location; an array of photosensors restricted to only a substantially perpendicular movement relative to a plane of the media input location; and an optical path including a first optical path section from the light source to the extended region of the media input location and a second optical path section from the extended region of the media input location to the array of photosensors. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149595 | IMAGE FORMING CONTROLLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING CONTROLLING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING CONTROLLING PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - To facilitate per-page setting for data to be printed in an MFP, a PC controlling the MFP includes a print instruction accepting portion to accept data including pages and page setting information having, for each page, a parameter set for a page setting item which can be set per page, an HDD which stores in advance setting information in which a first parameter which can be set for the page setting item is associated with a second parameter which can be set for a subordinate item selected from option items which can be set for printing in the MFP, and a command generating portion to generate, for each page, a command to cause the MFP to perform printing, based on the first parameter set for the page setting item in the accepted page setting information and the second parameter associated with that first parameter by the stored setting information. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149596 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A DEVICE THAT UPDATES STORED PROGRAM BASED ON UPDATING DATA WHICH IS SELECTED BASED ON PROGRAM THAT IS STARTED OR STARTABLE - An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores programs for carrying out processes, an updating data selection section that selects an updating data for at least one of programs from an updating data group, based on a program that is started or is startable, and an updating section that updates at least one arbitrary program stored in the storage section based on the selected updating data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100165404 | Laser Print Apparatus That Generates Pulse With Value And Justification Value Based On Pixels In A Multi-Bit Image - A laser print apparatus includes a memory for storing a multi-bit image including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel is represented by an N-bit value, wherein N is greater than one. A modulation code generator analyzes three adjacent pixels. The three adjacent pixels include a left pixel, a center pixel, and a right pixel. The modulation code generator is configured to generate a pulse width value based on the value of the center pixel, and a justification value based on the values of the left pixel and the right pixel. A laser print engine forms an output pixel on media based on the pulse width value and the justification value. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165405 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a printing unit for executing a single-sided print job and a double-sided print job. A storage unit stores print target data as backing sheet image data when a single-sided print job is executed. An image reading unit reads images on both sides of a document that is subjected to image processing. A backing sheet judgment unit judges whether there is an image that matches a backing sheet image among the images on both sides of the document by comparing the document image data read by the image reading unit with the backing sheet image data stored in the storage unit. An exclusion processing unit performs processing to exclude from the image processing targets an image judged by the backing sheet judgment unit to match the backing sheet image among the images on both sides of the document read by the image reading unit. | 07-01-2010 |
20100171986 | Enforcing Reproduction Rights for Hard Copies of Documents - Mechanisms for enforcing reproduction rights for hard copies of physical hard copy articles are provided. The mechanisms electronically scan a surface of the physical hard copy article using a scanning mechanism to generate scanned data. A reproduction control identifier is extracted from the scanned data and output of a copy of the article is controlled based on the reproduction control identifier that was extracted from the scanned data. The physical hard copy article has a plurality of reproduction control identifiers present in multiple locations on the surface of the physical hard copy article such that content of portions of the physical hard copy article provided on the surface cannot be electronically scanned by the scanning mechanism without detecting a reproduction control identifier. | 07-08-2010 |
20100171987 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - To provide an image processing apparatus that changes methods of storage to a memory depending on image data to be input and improves overall image processing performance, as well as a control method of the image processing apparatus. To accomplish this, the present image processing apparatus changes methods in which input image data is stored depending on whether scanner image processing is to be performed by a system control unit that comprehensively controls the image processing apparatus or performed outside of the system control unit. Specifically, when performing scanner image processing in the system control unit, since input image data is to be input directly from a CCD, the image data is stored frame-sequentially in a memory. On the other hand, when performing scanner image processing outside of the system control unit, input image data is stored dot-sequentially in a memory. | 07-08-2010 |
20100188704 | ANALOG BACKUP OF DIGITAL IMAGES AND IMAGE RESTORATION THEREFROM - An apparatus for backing up a digitally stored image includes a substrate on which the image and digital restoration data corresponding to the digitally stored image are printed on the substrate. The apparatus may be scanned to restore the image printed thereon to its original digital form. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195156 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a plurality of images are combined together, a positioning error can occur. To correct positioning error, the images may be displayed on a display, and a user may specify a correction value using an operation device. However, in a case where the operation device does not have high performance or the display does not have a screen large enough to provide sufficiently high viewability, the correction of the positioning error is difficult. In the present invention, in view of the above, a sheet is printed and a user describes on the sheet a correction value in terms of relative position of a plurality of images stored in a memory. The sheet is read by a reading apparatus, and an image obtained is analyzed to determine the specified correction value. The relative position of the plurality of images stored in the memory is corrected based on the determined correction value. | 08-05-2010 |
20100214613 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus which prints by scanning a printhead in two directions based on raster data containing multi-valued data, sequentially stores multi-valued data contained in each raster data in a print buffer in correspondence with a predetermined direction of the two directions, acquires for each raster data, identification information corresponding to the multi-valued data stored in the print buffer first and identification information corresponding to the multi-valued data stored in the print buffer lastly for each tone value based on initial values of identification information and the number of multi-valued data contained in each raster data, generates bitmap data from the multi-valued data using pattern data read out based on identification information selected based on a scanning direction of the printhead, and controls printing of the printhead based on the generated bitmap data. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220359 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A memory management device, an image forming apparatus, and an image forming method include an OS-management-memory-region managing unit configured to divide a physical memory space into a management region managed by an OS and a non-management region that is not managed by the OS, assign the management region to the virtual memory space, and acquire and/or free a memory space of the management region. The image forming apparatus includes an OS-non-management-memory-region managing unit assigning the non-management region to the virtual memory space so that an application program acquires and/or frees a memory space of the non-management region. The OS-management-memory-region managing unit includes a window region provided so that the OS refers to the non-management region. Data is read and/or written from and/or into the OS-non-management region via the window region. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING BOOKS BY BOOK IDENTIFICATION - A system and method for efficiently copying books. According to the system and method, a user inputs a book identification into a peripheral device to cause the peripheral device to access an electronic version of the book. Upon so accessing, the peripheral is adapted to print the electronic version as specified. The book identification may be any suitable identification, such as a book ISBN number, a bar code, a title, etc. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225969 | Decoding device, method for controlling decoding device, and image forming apparatus - A decoding device checks whether there is free space in each of channel-by-channel buffers, specifies a channel corresponding to a buffer having free space as an input channel for receiving an input of compressed data, analyzes codes of the compressed data received through the input channel, and detects a delimit position in the compressed data on the basis of a result of the analysis. The decoding device expands the compressed data received through the input channel, and sorts the expanded data so as to be stored in the buffer corresponding to the input channel. The decoding device cancels specification of the input channel in accordance with detection of the delimit position, and checks whether there is free space in each of the channel-by-channel buffers, and then specifies a channel corresponding to a buffer having free space as a next input channel. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING HARD DISK STORAGE UNIT, AND DATA DISPLAY METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a hard disk storage unit for storing user registered data; a display unit for displaying the user registered data in a user selectable state; a power supply unit for supplying power to the hard disk storage unit; a power supply control unit for interrupting or starting power supply to the hard disk storage unit; a switch memory for storing at least a part of the user registered data stored in the hard disk storage unit; and an access switching unit for displaying the user registered data stored in the switch memory on the display unit in a user selectable state when the power supply from the power supply unit to the hard disk storage unit is started. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231973 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing system includes: a generator that generates a document image to be printed; a memory that stores document images for plural pages, the document images generated by the generator in print processing; an arithmetic unit that performs an AND operation on document images for a plural number of specific pages among the document images stored in the memory; and a display controller that causes a display device to display a synthetic image obtained by the AND operation by the arithmetic unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231974 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus including a position adjusting mechanism of a recording head, including: a first force applying member that applies a force, in a first direction, to a first side face of the recording head; a first position adjusting member that holds the recording head by receiving the force in the first direction at a first inclined face thereof inclined with respect to the first direction; a first pressing member disposed between the first inclined face and a second side face of the recording head and having a second inclined face which is parallel to the first inclined face and which contacts the first inclined face, and a pressing face which presses the second side face; and a first moving mechanism that moves the first position adjusting member relative to the first pressing member in a direction along a second direction. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238506 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, SEARCH APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The document processing system is provided with: a printing unit that prints a document image on a medium; an image reading unit that performs image reading on the medium; a holding unit that holds history information on processing performed by the printing unit; and a search unit that searches the history information held by the holding unit on the basis of an image of a printout which is the medium with the document image printed on the medium by the printing unit. The search unit determines similarity between the image of the printout and a synthetic image in which the document image is synthesized with an image of the medium read by the image reading unit, and searches for history information on processing performed for the printout on the basis of a result of the determination. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238507 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, data recovery method, and computer-readable recording medium - An information processing apparatus includes a volatile main storage; a nonvolatile first-auxiliary storage; a nonvolatile second-auxiliary storage for storing second data; a processing unit for loading the second data from the second-auxiliary storage into the main storage; a storing unit for storing first data stored in the main storage into the first-auxiliary storage at a predetermined timing, wherein the first data includes the second data that has been loaded into the main storage from the second-auxiliary storage; and a loading unit for loading the first data stored in the first-auxiliary storage into the main storage. After the loading unit has loaded the first data into the main storage, the processing unit loads, from the second-auxiliary storage into the main storage, the second data that has been changed after the storing unit stored the first data into the first-auxiliary storage from the main storage section. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245914 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus configured as follows. A mode specification table in a storage device contains mode specification information obtained by associating a job designated by a user. The mode specification information indicates which of a page mode and a band mode is to be selected when the job is performed. An operation panel detects a first user operation for inputting the job and a second user operation for starting the job. A main controller, using the mode specification information, specifies the mode corresponding to the job designated by the first user operation. A main controller causes a data acquisition circuit to acquire image data upon detection of the second user operation and causes an image processing circuit to perform a data processing according to the specified mode. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245915 | IMAGE PRODUCING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An image producing device by which image data that is produced by an image producing unit is written in an external memory medium, or by which image data is read from the external memory medium and written to a device main unit of the image producing device, the device main unit includes: a record unit configured to record first identification information of image data that is written in the external memory medium; a data storage unit configured to store image data that is recorded by the record unit; and a data operation unit configured to move image data from the external memory medium to the data storage unit based on the first identification information in the record unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245916 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A scanner is equipped with an input image buffering section | 09-30-2010 |
20100265547 | PROCESSING CONDITION SETTING DEVICE AND PROCESSING CONDITION SETTING METHOD - A processing condition setting device for setting a processing condition in an image processing apparatus comprises a history storage section storing a plurality of previous setting details includes a combination of a plurality of setting conditions in correlation with processing objects, a first display section displaying processing objects stored in history storage section, a candidate selecting section selecting as a setting candidate setting details corresponding to processing object, which is selected from processing objects displayed by first display section, from plurality of previous setting details stored in history storage section, a second display section displaying setting candidates selected on basis of selected processing object by candidate selecting section, and a history updating section storing setting details of process, which is performed in a state where one setting candidate is selected from setting candidates displayed by second display section, in history storage section. | 10-21-2010 |
20100290088 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD PERFORMED BY IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - This invention allows a user to know whether printed materials to be discharged by executing a print job can be discharged, without waiting for the turn to execute the print job. Upon accepting a print job, an image forming apparatus registers the accepted print job in a print queue and discharges, to one of the lockable discharge units, sheets on which images are formed by executing the registered print job. Upon accepting the print job, the image forming apparatus determines, based on the discharge status of the discharge units after executing a preceding print job registered in the print job, whether sheets to be discharged by executing the print job can be discharged. If the sheets cannot be discharged, the image forming apparatus notifies the user of a message to this effect. | 11-18-2010 |
20100302592 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - Document data is stored including both permanent pages whose page contents are permanent and variable pages whose page contents vary depending on a plurality of types of records. Print data which includes the variable pages and is to be output to the first printing apparatus serving as a plateless printing apparatus, and plate data which does not include the variable pages and is used to make a press plate used in the second printing apparatus serving as a plate printing apparatus are generated from the document data. | 12-02-2010 |
20100302593 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A printing control apparatus confirms whether a predetermined free space is present to stabilize an operation of a system. If it is determined that the predetermined free space is not present, the printing control apparatus deletes at least a part of stored print data. In a case where the predetermined free space becomes available by preliminarily performed deletion processing, the printing control apparatus stores print data of a first copy. Then, in the print processing for second and subsequent copies, if print data of a target page is already present, the printing control apparatus skips the processing for generating the print data of the target page. | 12-02-2010 |
20100315684 | Information processing device, detachable storage medium access control circuit, and image forming apparatus - An information processing device including a printed circuit board, to access a detachable storage medium, including a control device, provided on the printed circuit board, to control access to the storage medium; a slot connector, provided on the printed circuit board to accept the storage medium; a junction portion between the storage medium and the printed circuit board, to receive a signal from the storage medium; a signal line connected between the junction portion and the control device, to transmit a signal from the storage medium to the control device; a noise line connected between the junction portion and a ground terminal, to transmit noise from the junction portion to the ground terminal; and a noise absorption element, provided in the noise line between the junction portion and the ground terminal. | 12-16-2010 |
20100321735 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An apparatus continues, before a number of pages where image data started to be input reaches N pages, inputting of the image data until an amount of the image data stored in a storage unit reaches a first amount, and thereafter, continue the inputting of the image data until the amount of the stored image data reaches a second amount, which is smaller than the first amount. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328724 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a processing block, a first control block, and a second control block. The first control block issues a write request signal for inputting a first write pulse to a register of the processing block. The second control block issues a second write pulse cliffs differing from the first write pulse with timing independent of the first control block. The processing block includes the register, a write pulse generating circuit which generates the first write pulse according to the write request signal from the first control block, and a switching circuit which selects either the first write pulse or the second write pulse and inputs the selected pulse to the register. | 12-30-2010 |
20110032572 | JOB HISTORY DATA INSPECTION SYSTEM - There is provided a job history data inspection system capable of appropriate access control on job histories. A data processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive job history data about a history of a job executed by an image processing unit, a setting unit configured to acquire, based on information about a job execution user included in the job history data received by the reception unit, access right information about the job execution user and set the acquired access right information in the job history data received by the reception unit, and a storage unit configured to store in a memory unit job history data including the access right information set by the setting unit. | 02-10-2011 |
20110043859 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data processing apparatus includes a first processor configured not to execute a command to convert print data to intermediate data when a resource is rasterized in accordance with a command to rasterize the resource of the print data, and to convert the print data which is not converted to the intermediate data to the intermediate data when rasterizing of the resource of the print data is finished, a management unit configured to manage the resource rasterized by the first processor so that a processor except the first processor can refer to the resource when the print data is converted to the intermediate data, and a second processor configured not to execute a command to rasterize the resource of the print data and to convert the print data to the intermediate data with reference to the resource managed by the management unit. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051193 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFORAND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a sever access unit configured to acquire information representing an amount of use of a storage area from a document management server, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the amount of use exceeds a threshold when data is stored in the storage area by checking the size of the data. A document storage unit stores the data in a storage unit in the image forming apparatus when the amount of use exceeds the threshold, and stores management information relating to a storage location of the data in the storage unit in the document management server. The document storage unit stores the data in the storage area when the amount of use is the threshold or less. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051194 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus includes an output unit configured to periodically output a file to a storage region of a storage device and to share the storage region with another apparatus, a check unit configured to check whether a periodical output of the file to the storage region performed by a plurality of apparatuses is successful based on a number of the files stored in the storage region, and a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing based on a result of the check performed by the check unit. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058221 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND STORING SCAN IMAGES - An apparatus for displaying and storing scan images includes an image capturing module, a processor module and a display module. The image capturing module captures N images of N pages of a document and generates corresponding N sets of image data, where N is a positive integer greater than 2. The processor module, coupled to the image capturing module, controls the image capturing module, processes the N sets of image data and generates corresponding storage image data and M representation images of M of the N images, where M is a positive integer less than N. The display module, coupled to the processor module, displays the M representation images after the storage image data are stored in a memory device connected to the apparatus. A method for displaying and storing the scan images is also disclosed. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058222 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention allows the user to select files to be printed from arbitrary folders, easily designate a folder selected in the past, and confirm data files in the folder, thereby improving the operability of selecting a file to be printed. For this purpose, the display window has a folder view display area for displaying the tree structure of folders, and a file view display area for displaying a list of image data files stored in a folder selected in the folder view display area. When a new folder is selected in the folder view display area, a path representing the location position of the folder is added to the folder list. When a file having a print count of “1” or more exists in the file view display area, the file name and print count of the file are added to a file list associated with a folder list. When a selected-folder view display button is clicked, a list of folders registered in the folder list is displayed. If one of the registered folders is selected, a corresponding folder in the folder view display area is selected, and the file view display area is also updated. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063679 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus to generate printing data, comprising: a storage section to store the image data and reference data; a printing data generating section to generate the printing data based on the image data and the reference data; and a control section to output an address of the image data and that of the reference data to the printing data generating section, wherein the printing data generating section obtains the data based on the addresses thereof, and stores them in an internal storage section of the printing data generating section, and the control section outputs both of the addresses thereof when storage content stored in the internal storage section does not include the reference data obtained based on the address thereof, and only outputs the address of the image data when the storage content already includes the reference data obtained based on the address thereof. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063680 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes: a request signal generating unit that generates a predetermined timing signal and transmits a request signal for a specified number of times for requesting line-by-line image data during a time interval at which the timing signal is generated; and a memory control unit that sequentially saves, in a memory unit, line-by-line image data transmitted in response to the request signal and reads line-by-line image data saved in the memory unit to transmit the line-by-line image data to a drive control unit. Upon receiving a predetermined increase request, the request signal generating unit shifts a generation timing of the timing signal so that, during the time interval, the request signal can be transmitted for an increased number of times than the specified number of times, and gradually shortens the timing signal by a predetermined shortening time period. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the image forming apparatus, when the document data is developed to generate the print data in order to print out by the document data, the possibility of repeated requests to print out by the document data is determined by whether or not the document data is stored in the shared directory, or whether or not the document data is attached to the electronic mail distributed to a plurality of people. If the need of storing the document data has been determined, the document data is stored in the image forming apparatus. Upon receipt of a request to print out by the same document data as this document data, the stored print data is used for printing. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069353 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING IMAGE DATA, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMAGE DATA, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing system performs a specific process on first image data to generate second image data, and estimates, if it is specified that the second image data is to be stored into a portable storage medium, a necessary time for the second image data to be generated. If the necessary time is longer than a predetermined period of time, depending on a selection made by a user, the image processing system stores the second image data into the portable storage medium after the second image data is completely generated, or, alternatively, stores, identification information including a storage location of the second image data into the portable storage medium, and then, stores the second image data into an image data storage portion. The image processing system, then, transmits, to a terminal, the second image data stored in the image data storage portion in accordance with a request from the terminal. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069354 | PRINTING SYSTEM UTILIZING CARTRIDGE PRE-STORED WITH IDENTIFIERS WITH IDENTIFYING PRINTED PAGES - A printer system for printing pages belonging to an interactive page system includes a cartridge comprising a data storage area in which is pre-stored a range of identifiers, each identifier being unique throughout the interactive page system; and a printer comprising an interface for receiving the cartridge, a reader for reading an identifier from the range of pre-stored identifiers, a coded data generator for generating a page identifier from the identifier, and a printing mechanism for printing the page identifier onto a page. The reader reads a previously unread identifier from the range of identifiers each time the coded data generator is to generate a page identifier. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA IN COMPLEX CONTAINERS - Systems and methods for managing data in complex containers permit atomic addition of a plurality of data items to the containers. Each data item can occupy contiguous memory locations, although the plurality of data items may be mutually discontiguous. The method comprises creating a package object, which comprises an externally accessible array of pointer and associated integers. Each pointer points to the start of a memory location holding a distinct data item and the associated integer represents the size of the data item referenced by the pointer. A function associated with an external interface of the container determines a quantity of memory to hold the plurality of data items and invokes an externally accessible write function in the package object to add the plurality of individual data items to the container at specified locations if there is adequate memory available to hold the plurality of data items. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075218 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, which includes a storage unit having a plurality of data areas, includes a measurement unit configured to measure a first data access speed in a first data area of the storage unit and a second data access speed in a second data area of the storage unit, and a detection unit configured to detect a defect at the first data area based on difference between the first data access speed and the second data access speed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110096362 | Image Reading Device And Method Of Writing Image Data In An Image Reading Device - Improving the data transfer rate of memory in an image reading device. An image reading device includes an image reading sensor that captures an image of a subject, memory that has a storage area divided into a plurality of banks, each of the plurality of banks having an image data storage area with a capacity for storing image data of the captured image, and a memory control unit that writes a portion of the image data to the image data storage area of an accessed bank and then changes the bank accessed for writing a subsequent portion of the image data so that the image data is stored in the plurality of banks segmented into data units that are smaller than the data capacity of an image data storage area. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096363 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Image data is saved directly in an external memory without using an incorporated HDD for filing the image data and without degrading the image data, so that costs are reduced as not requiring the incorporated HDD and the image data without degradation is able to be used again easily. A USB memory saves image data acquired by an image processing apparatus and setting data of the image data, and further saves a tool software allowing the image data to be viewed, edited, and printed by a PC. The image data saved in a saving memory of the USB memory can be, for example, printed or transmitted as it is by the image processing apparatus. Further, the tool software allows a user to, for example, view and edit the image data using the PC. Further, it is possible to cause a specific printer to print the image data by the PC. | 04-28-2011 |
20110109941 | RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE, RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording control device controls a recording mechanism section which performs recording on a recording medium by a recording head. An image expansion section expands data input from the outside to create image data for recording. An image buffer memory temporarily stores the image data created by the image expansion section. A recording control section reads the image data stored in the image buffer memory, and controls the recording mechanism section to record the read image data on the recording medium by the recording head. The recording control section controls a recording speed of the recording mechanism section on the basis of a creation speed of the image data in the image expansion section. | 05-12-2011 |
20110122447 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to perform printing by using a minimum of band buffer and correcting bending/inclination in a sub-scanning direction without making optical adjustments and using special hardware, 1-band image data are stored in the band buffer, images stored in the band buffer are corrected, images lying outside a band area are stored in an intermediate buffer, and images including images stored in the intermediate buffer and corrected images of a next band that lie inside the band area are output. | 05-26-2011 |
20110134483 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus for generating print data determines whether an occupancy rate of objects to be printed on a paper sheet is larger than a set threshold value, and, in a case where the occupancy rate is determined to be larger than the threshold value, performs processing for changing to the objects to reduce the occupancy rate thereof. | 06-09-2011 |
20110141521 | PRESERVING USER APPLIED MARKINGS MADE TO A HARDCOPY ORIGINAL DOCUMENT - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for preserving user-applied markings made to a hardcopy of an original document and for generating a new composite document containing the user markings which can be reprinted without loss of image quality. In one embodiment, an original document is scanned to produce a digital representation thereof. One or more marked documents containing the user markups are scanned. The user markings are identified in each of the marked document by an iterative comparison between the marked document and the image of the original document. The identified user markings are stored to records. Thereafter, the stored user markings are retrieved and combined into an image of the original document to produce a new composite document containing selected user markings. The new file is smaller in file size and has no loss of image quality during subsequent reprints. Various embodiments have been disclosed. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149347 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data processing apparatus allocates memory from an unused area of memory to one processor out of two processors so that a size of the memory allocated to the processor is equal to a fallback threshold value, and then allocates an unused area of the remaining memory to the other processor. | 06-23-2011 |
20110157651 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus including a replaceable image forming unit for yellow and others mounted on a photocopier body to share the load of implementing image forming output functions for each color; a memory section on the apparatus body side for storing information of the image forming unit for yellow and others; an operation display section for setting a plurality of body memory areas for unit management to the memory section; and a control section for controlling the image forming unit for yellow as a replaceable spare part for the image forming unit for yellow and others as a regularly installed part, and for processing unit information for each image forming unit for yellow, using a plurality of body memory areas of the set memory section. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157652 | PRINTER, DEDICATED USB FLASH DRIVE AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printer includes a processor configured to execute, when a dedicated USB flash drive is plugged in a second USB port, a process of (i′) making a USB ordinary storage region in the dedicated USB flash drive recognized as a removable drive while managing an access to the USB ordinary storage region in the dedicated USB flash drive, with respect to a host connected to a first USB port, and to further execute, when the execution file of a second application program is read and executed by the host, processes of (a′) renewing a command file in a command-purpose memory region with a command file received from the host; (b′) analyzing the command file currently renewed and taking out print data therefrom, and (c′) making a printing device execute printing based on the print data currently taken out. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157653 | Image Forming Apparatus and Nonvolatile Memory Writing Method - Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a nonvolatile memory writing unit configured to write into the nonvolatile memory, at every predetermined time period in which change data is written into the volatile memory within that predetermined time period, the change data written into the volatile memory, a temporary area writing unit configured to write new change data into a temporary area while a primary area writing unit is writing any change data into the primary area, and a primary area transfer unit configured to transfer any change data written into the temporary area by the temporary area writing unit to the primary area when the primary area writing unit completes writing the change data into the primary area. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164283 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus having an image data storing unit configured to store image data, an image data receiving unit configured to receive image data scanned the image forming apparatus, and to store the image data to the image data storing unit. There is a layout generation unit configured to generate layout information for arranging the plural image data in the image data storing unit according to a rule, a layout image generation unit configured to generate a layout image data arranged the image data according to the layout information if a certain output condition is satisfied, and a print control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to print the layout image data. | 07-07-2011 |
20110170140 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an automatic update determination unit that stores update information for updating a record level among layers included in print data, a layered metadata change unit that acquires a key included in metadata in the print data and a value corresponding to the key, generates a change screen that can receive an instruction relating to grouping processing of the metadata, performs grouping processing on the metadata based on the instruction relating to grouping processing received via the change screen, determines based on the update information whether the record level needs to be changed by the grouping processing, and changes the record level when it is determined that the record level needs to be changed. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176175 | Replaceable Printer Component Including a Memory Storing a Tag Encryption Mask - A replaceable printer component includes a memory and a communication link The memory stores a tag encryption mask and data. The data is stored in a plurality of portions of the memory where each portion is defined by a tag. The tag encryption mask indicates an encryption status of each portion of the memory defined by a tag. The communication link is configured to communicatively link the memory to a printer controller when the replaceable printer component is installed in a printing system. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188083 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the present invention is an image forming apparatus into which a memory device is insertable and which performs a printing process on an image of image data stored in the memory device. The image forming apparatus includes a memory reading section for detecting insertion of the memory device into the image forming apparatus, and a display processing section for performing a notification process of warning of accidental ingestion of the memory device, when the memory reading section detects the insertion of the memory device. This makes it more surely possible to cause a user to give attention to accidental ingestion by young children. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188084 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194148 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus having a printing engine, a first control unit, and a second control unit, in which a normal operation is performed by at least the printing engine and the first control unit, a first power saving operation is performed by at least the first control unit while the printing engine is stopped, and a second power saving operation is performed by only the second control unit, the printing apparatus including: a first storage unit of the first control unit that stores a setting value reflecting a setting change performed while the printing apparatus is operated and an operation value not reflecting the setting change performed while the printing apparatus is operated; a second storage unit of the second control unit that stores the setting value and the operation value. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194149 | TECHNOLOGY FOR COMBINING IMAGES IN A FORM - When a plurality of image data are received, a form data from among at least one form data and a format data from among at least one format data are selected based on number of the image data. The image data, selected form data and format data are combined to generate an output image. | 08-11-2011 |
20110199647 | WOVEN PATTERN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND WOVEN PATTERN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a woven pattern image processing apparatus includes: a woven-pattern-image-generation-area designating unit configured to arbitrarily designate one or plural woven pattern image generation areas in one page of a print sheet; a woven pattern image pattern memory configured to store at least a sign string appearing pattern and a copy prohibition pattern as woven pattern image patterns; a woven-pattern-image selecting unit configured to select the woven pattern image patterns to be stored in the woven pattern image pattern memory and selectively set the selected woven pattern image patterns in the woven pattern image generation areas; and an image control unit configured to combine, in the areas designated by the woven-pattern-image-generation-area designating unit, the woven pattern image patterns selected by the woven-pattern-image selecting unit with printing data of a document image to be printed in the one page of the print sheet. | 08-18-2011 |
20110211228 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, RESTORE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is described where restoration of unnecessary data is prevented, and a storage area of the image forming apparatus is effectively utilized. When an option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is selected, data backed up by a backup unit is set as data to be restored by a restore unit. When the option to increase the storage capacity of the image forming apparatus is not selected, data indicated by data identification information as being required data is set as data to be restored by the restore unit from among the data backed up by the backup unit. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216369 | METHOD OF STORING DATA ON A PHOTOGRAPH - A method of storing data on a photograph includes delimiting a plurality of data block regions on the photograph, the plurality of data block regions superposing a region of the photograph delimited for the printing of a photographic image; compressing data representing the image contained in the photograph with a compression technique; redundantly encoding the compressed data using Reed-Solomon encoding techniques; shuffling the redundantly encoded compressed data in a deterministic manner to reduce potential effects of localized encoded data caused by damage to the photograph; and printing the shuffled data as dots within the data block regions on the photograph. The printing of the shuffled data is performed simultaneously with a printing of the image of the photograph. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216370 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus configured to record on a recording medium by using a recording head, includes a first storage unit that stores input data including a command and a first image data, a reading unit that reads out the command and the first image data stored in the first storage unit by using a first pointer, a generating unit that converts the first image data read out from the first storage unit and generate a second image data, a second storage unit that stores the second image data generated in the generating unit, a determining unit that determines whether an amount of data stored in the first storage unit reaches a predetermined value by using a second pointer, and a recording unit that starts a scan for recording after the determining unit determines that the amount of data stored in the first storage unit reaches the predetermined value. | 09-08-2011 |
20110222121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit which stores first image data including a plurality of pixel data; a control unit which is connected to the storage unit and which performs a calculation process on the first image data and controls performing of the calculation process; a parallel calculation process unit which simultaneously performs the same calculation processes on entirety of or some of the plurality of the pixel data included in the first image data; and a sequential calculation process unit which performs the calculation process on each of the pixel data included in the first image data, wherein the control unit determines, as a calculation performer to perform a first calculation process, at least one unit selected from a group including the control unit itself, the parallel calculation process unit, and the sequential calculation process unit, according to a predetermined condition. | 09-15-2011 |
20110235122 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC LANGUAGE CUSTOMIZATION - Methods disclosed facilitate the dynamic addition of language support for peripherals. In some embodiments, peripherals may read in language strings in a previously unsupported language from a data file and populate memory locations with the strings. The memory locations may be logically addressed using an index value associated with the previously unsupported language and identifier associated with the string. In some embodiments, the identifier associated with the string in the previously unsupported language may correspond to the identifier associated with a translated equivalent of the string in a language that is natively supported by the printer. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235123 | PRINTER - A printer includes a connection port that connects an external storage device to the printer, a command input unit that inputs coded information or text-form information, and a processor that executes a command corresponding to coded information or text-form information inputted in the command input unit by using data stored in the external storage device connected to the connection port. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235124 | Image Forming Apparatus, Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Job History Management Program Code, and Job History Management Method in the Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a history storage unit, a history writing unit, and a history reading unit. The history storage unit is configured to store a job history that shows a history of a job. The history writing unit is configured to divide that job history into a plurality of histories, add identification information to the plurality of histories for associating the plurality of histories with each other, and write the plurality of histories to the history storage unit. The history reading unit is configured to read that plurality of histories on the basis of the identification information. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242608 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus has a function for formation of an image and includes a first storage unit in which data is stored; an operation input receiving unit that receives an operation input from a user; a storage control unit that stores data in the first storage unit or an external storage device when the operation input receiving unit receives an operation input for storing the data, the external storage device being communicated with the image forming apparatus through a network; and a determining unit that performs, based on a predetermined condition, either a process of determining a storage destination of first data to be the external storage device or a process of determining a storage destination of second data to be the first storage unit, the first data being data stored in the first storage unit, the second data being data stored in the external storage device. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249297 | Printing Apparatus, Data Storage Medium, Interface Device, Printer Control Method, and Interface Control Method - An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory | 10-13-2011 |
20110255133 | EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR IMAGING DEVICES - Imaging devices and external storage media facilitate secured storage of user-specific data. An imaging device includes a processor configured to detect coupling of an external storage medium to the imaging device, to perform an authentication process upon detecting the coupling of an external storage medium, and to disable storage of print job data to an internal storage medium of the imaging device in response to authenticating an external storage medium. The imaging device processor may further be configured to determine if the internal storage contains identification information, and to perform the authentication process if the internal storage medium does not contain identification information. | 10-20-2011 |
20110279871 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - It is determined whether or not there is an available area to store composite image data, in addition to inputted image data, in a storage device for storage of image data. When it is determined that there is an available area, the composite image data obtained by combining is stored in addition to the input image data. When it is determined that there is no available area, the input image data is stored into the storage device. Upon image formation, when composite image data is stored in the storage device, an image is formed in accordance with the composite image data. When it is determined that composite image data is not stored, an image is formed by generating composite image data based on image data read from the storage device. | 11-17-2011 |
20110292448 | PROGRAM EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - A program execution control method for a printer provided with a controller including a CPU, a RAM and a ROM, wherein a first program to be operated in a printing state, a second program to be operated in a sleep state and a third program to be operated in a standby state are stored in the ROM, the program execution control method includes the steps of: executing by the CPU, in the printing state, the first program by expanding the first program on the RAM, and by using a work area of the RAM; executing by the CPU, in the sleep state, the second program without expanding the second program on the RAM, and without using the work area of the RAM; and executing by the CPU, in the standby state, the third program without expanding the third program on the RAM, and by using the work area of the RAM. | 12-01-2011 |
20110317220 | SERVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING DATA - According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a transfer unit, and a management unit. The storage unit stores user identification information and an extension condition with information indicating a print job. If the transfer unit receives an inquiry of a print job including user information from an image forming apparatus, the transfer unit transfers the print job corresponding to the user information included in the inquiry to the image forming apparatus as the inquiry sending source from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit. The management unit deletes a print job, to which an extension condition was added, from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit after the elapse time from the print job receiving time point exceeds the preservation period and the extension condition is then further exceeded. | 12-29-2011 |
20120013949 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus determines a color range based on a dot counting value of a number of colors smaller than a number of colors subjected to thinning processing. Thus, even if the number of ink colors subjected to the thinning processing is great, a processing load of the determination of the color range can be reduced. | 01-19-2012 |
20120019868 | SCANNER DEVICE - A scanner device may create original data in an internal storage unit. The original data may include header information and actual image data representing a scan target object. The header information may include a first value as size information. The size information may indicate a size of image data corresponding to a scanning direction. In a case where the size of the actual image data is smaller than the first value, the original data may further include specific image data such that the size of entire image data including the actual image data and the specific image data is identical to the first value. The scanner device may calculate a digest value by utilizing the original data so as to create purpose data in an external storage unit by utilizing the original data and the digest value. | 01-26-2012 |
20120038952 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSLATING VIRTUAL MEMORY ADDRESS INTO PHYSICAL MEMORY ADDRESS - An image forming apparatus includes a function unit to perform functions of the image forming apparatus, and a control unit to control the function unit to perform the functions of the image forming apparatus. The control unit includes a processor core to operate in a virtual memory address, a main memory to operate in a physical memory address and store data used in the functions of the image forming apparatus, and a plurality of input/output (I/O) logics to operate in the virtual memory address and control at least one of the functions performed by the image forming apparatus. Each of the plurality of I/O logics translates the virtual memory address into the physical memory address corresponding to the virtual memory address and accesses the main memory. | 02-16-2012 |
20120044539 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an image processing apparatus, an HDD stores registration data, an operation unit receives an instruction requesting erasure of the registration data, and a control unit erases the registration data and restricts operations of the image processing apparatus in response to the instruction. Further, the HDD stores unique information unique to the image processing apparatus and changeable information that is changed in response to the erasure of registration data. If it is determined that a cancellation key generated by a management server and received by the operation unit is a cancellation key corresponding to the unique information and the changeable information, the control unit cancels the operation restriction of the image processing apparatus. | 02-23-2012 |
20120062955 | Printing Apparatus, Data Storage Medium, Interface Device, Printer Control Method, and Interface Control Method - An interface device backs up printer settings and operating history data of printer so that the settings and history data can be easily restored. A nonvolatile memory | 03-15-2012 |
20120069402 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a plurality of storage units into which image data is written, a control unit which has storage space information indicating a same storage space as a storage space of each of the plurality of storage units and manages address information to perform a writing and reading of image data with respect to the plurality of storage units on the basis of the storage space information, a plurality of data managing units which are provided correspondingly to the plurality of storage units and perform the writing and the reading of the image data with respect to the plurality of storage units on the basis of the address information, and a printing unit which prints the image data read from the plurality of storage units on a same page. | 03-22-2012 |
20120075675 | Image Forming Apparatus, Data Storing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Recording Medium that Stores Data Storing Program - An image forming apparatus includes an interface, a reading unit, an internal storage, and a deletion control unit. The interface is configured to establish a connection with an external storage. The internal storage is configured to store the data read from the external storage. The deletion control unit is configured to delete the data stored in the internal storage on the basis of an operation related to releasing the connection with the external storage. | 03-29-2012 |
20120081752 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided, including an image forming mechanism which executes a printing process; an object data memory which stores image data as an object of the printing process when a printing instruction is received; a re-formation condition memory which stores a type of a printing function and whether or not image data is an object of image re-formation in con'elation with each other; an object judging mechanism which judges whether or not the image data as a source of the image formation is the object of the image re-formation; and a data deleting mechanism which deletes the image data as the source of the image formation from the object data memory if the image data as the source of the image formation is not the object of the image re-formation. | 04-05-2012 |
20120092729 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INSTALLATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Installing an application that is executed by an image forming apparatus includes detecting connection of an external storage device, requesting, if the external storage device whose connection is detected contains application data and device data including apparatus identification information identifying an image forming apparatus in which the application is installed and application identification information identifying the application installed in the image forming apparatus, license data on the application data identified based on the application identification information to the image forming apparatus identified by the apparatus identification information, and installing, in response to the request, the application data stored in the external storage device by using the license data if the license data is successfully acquired from the image forming apparatus identified by the apparatus identification information. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099154 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - In executing a job for combining a plurality of images and outputting the combined image, an information processing apparatus stores log information to allow a system administrator to later identify what image has been output while effectively saving the capacity of a storage device to be used. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099155 | Method to store document using image forming apparatus and system to perform the same - A method to store a document using an image forming apparatus and a system to perform the same. The method to store a document using an image forming apparatus to perform at least one function includes: converting first data indicating a document to be worked on and having a format to perform at least one function in the image forming apparatus to second data indicating the document to be worked on; storing the first data and synchronization information in the image forming apparatus; and storing the converted second data in at least one of the image forming apparatus and an external apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. | 04-26-2012 |
20120105913 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An image processing device is provided, which includes a first processor, a second processor configured to perform communication with the first processor, and a memory connector that is connected with the second processor, configured such that an external memory is detachably attached thereto, and provided with a terminal that is connected with the first processor and connectable with a memory area of the external memory which area stores specification information of the external memory. The first processor is configured to, prior to the second processor being booted, determine whether an error relating to the external memory is caused, via the terminal. | 05-03-2012 |
20120105914 | MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In one embodiment, a circuit includes an input buffer, an output buffer, a counter, an issuing unit, a first controller, a register, and a second controller. The input buffer and the output buffer have a variable storage capacity. The counter cyclically counts from a first value to a second value. The issuing unit issues a write command if a count value of the counter is a third value and issues a read command if the count value is a fourth value. The register stores a first setting value, a second setting value and a third setting value to be capable of changing each of the setting values. The second controller controls the components to set the storage capacity, the second value, and one of the third and fourth values respectively to values corresponding to the first to third setting values. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113474 | POWER CONSUMPTION MONITORING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A power consumption monitoring apparatus that is capable of monitoring electric energy consumption of an electronic apparatus even when the configuration thereof changes. A receiving unit receives job history information about the electronic apparatus. A storage unit stores a calculation table for calculating power consumed by the electronic apparatus to execute the job. A calculation unit calculates power consumption of the electronic apparatus when executing the job based on the job history information and the calculation table. An acquisition unit acquires configuration information about the electronic apparatus. A management unit manages the job history information and adds correction target information to the job history information when the configuration information is not associated with the calculation table. A correction unit corrects the power consumption in association with the job history information to which the correction target information is added based on the updated calculation table when the calculation table is updated. | 05-10-2012 |
20120127530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DATA WRITING - An image processing apparatus for executing an image processing of print data and instructing a printing to a printing apparatus having a consumable supply, comprising:
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20120133984 | PRINT DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, CACHE APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND PRINT DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A print document processing system includes a cache apparatus and plural data processing apparatuses. The cache apparatus includes a cache memory, a state memory, and a first response providing unit. Each data processing apparatus includes an image data creating unit, a query unit, and a controller. The cache memory stores image data created by each data processing apparatus. Upon receipt of a query issued by the query unit on image data of a document element, the first response providing unit provides a CREATING response if a state stored in the state memory in association with the image data indicates that the image data is not in the cache memory and is currently being created by any other data processing apparatus. Upon receipt of the CREATING response, the controller performs control to use the image data after created or cause the image data creating unit to create the image data. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133985 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit receiving image formation instruction, an image formation unit forming an image, and a control unit which makes the image formation unit form an image when the operation unit receives the image formation instruction. The image forming apparatus includes a data acquisition unit acquiring an image formation object data, a data transformation unit transforming the image formation object data into a final print format data, and a memory unit storing the final print format data. The control unit makes the data transformation unit transform the image formation object data into the final print format data and makes the memory unit store the final print format data when the data acquisition unit acquires the image formation object data. The control unit makes the image formation unit form an image based on the final print format data. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133986 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus has a line memory for writing and reading image data of one line. A write/read controller controls writing and reading the image data of one line in and from the line memory. A white line determiner determines whether an image corresponding to image data of one line being written in the line memory is a white line. An image processor performs specified image processing on the image data of one line read from the line memory by the write/read controller. An image processing controller generates an operation clock used in the image processor and causes the image processor to perform the specified image processing for the image data of one line determined not to be a white line and stops generating the operation clock and reads white data from a white data storage for the image data of one line determined to be a white line. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133987 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: an operation unit; an image forming unit; a control unit making the image forming unit perform an image formation; a data acquisition unit obtaining an image formation object data; a data conversion unit converting the image formation object data to an image formation format data; and a plurality of memory regions storing the image formation format data, wherein when the data acquisition unit obtains the image formation object data, the control unit makes the data conversion unit convert the image formation object data to the image formation format data, makes each of the plurality of memory regions store each of the image formation format data, and, when the operation unit receives an image formation instruction, makes the image forming unit perform an image formation, in a predetermined order, of the image formation format data stored in the plurality of memory regions. | 05-31-2012 |
20120133988 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention is related to an image processing apparatus and method for efficiently managing a document. First data created by predetermined application software and second data converted into image data of a predetermined format (ex. PDF format) based on the first data are received. The first and second data are registered in a database in correspondence with a specific index. Then, either the first data or the second data is selected based on an output method designation and received information representing the index, and the selected data in accordance with the output method is output. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140286 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, PRINTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - To reduce power consumption, a data transmission apparatus comprises: a memory; a timing instruction unit which indicates a start timing of outputting data from the memory; a first interface which outputs data stored in the memory according to the timing instruction unit; a second interface which transfers the data from the first interface to a buffer; and a control unit which issues a command to perform transition of the first interface and the second interface to a power saving state based on the data output start timing indicated by the timing instruction unit, and a sum of a time required to perform transition of the first interface and the second interface to the power saving state and a time required to return from the power saving state. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140287 | PRINTING APPARATUS, DATA STORAGE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus having a reprint function includes a determination unit to determine whether newly input print data are able to be stored in an empty area of a data storage area, a selection unit to, if the determination unit determines that the newly input print data are not able to be stored in the empty area of the data storage area, select print data that matches a priority deletion condition from among print data pieces that have already been stored, a change unit to change, among deletion order information indicating a deletion order of the print data pieces stored in the data storage area, a deletion order corresponding to the print data selected by the selection unit, a deletion unit to delete corresponding print data based on the deletion order information, and a storage unit configured to store the newly input print data in the empty area. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140288 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes an interface unit configured to connect a portable memory storing print data including a print ticket, and a processing unit configured to set print setting information, wherein the processing unit is further configured to print, if the print ticket is prioritized when printing the print data, the print data based on print setting information included in the print ticket, and if the print ticket is not prioritized when printing the print data, to add the print setting information to the print data and to print the print data based on the print setting information. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154870 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus comprising a storage unit having a driving unit, determines whether or not access to the storage device is required with reception of data; determines whether or not a predetermined period of time has elapsed after transition to a first operation state; in a case where the predetermined period of time has elapsed, obtains, as an estimation time, a period of time until next reception of data that requires access to the storage device based on history information; and causes the printing apparatus to transition from the first operation state to a second operation state in a case where the estimation time exceeds a threshold of a period of time decided based on an amount of power consumption for when the driving unit is driven, and maintain the printing apparatus in the first operation state in a case where the estimation time does not exceed the threshold. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162715 | Image Processing Apparatus And Image Processing Method - An image processing apparatus includes: a first storage unit in which a pixel value of each of pixels in image data is written; a readout unit that reads a pixel value of a target pixel to be encoded from the first storage unit; a second storage unit in which the pixel value read by the readout unit is stored; a comparison-result-signal generating unit that compares between each pixel value of the consecutive target pixels and each of the pixel values stored in the second storage unit and that generates a signal; a searching unit that searches the second storage unit for a data string that includes L pieces (L≧2) of the consecutive pixel values that match L pieces of consecutive pixel values of an input data string that includes the consecutive target pixels; and an encoding unit that performs encoding according to a result by the searching unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162716 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DOCUMENT BOX - An image forming apparatus includes an execution controller for operating a function to be operated with function settings provided in a program. When a program is received by a program receiver, the execution controller causes a display controller to display box data stored in a document box related to the received program on a box data selection screen. Subsequently, after the box data selected and input on the displayed box data selection screen is received by a box data receiver, the execution controller handles the received box data as input data and operates the function to be operated with the function settings provided in the received program. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162717 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus transfers image data stored in a first storing part of a side of a first control part to a side of a writing engine. A second storing part temporarily stores the image data from said first storing part. When data stored in the second storing part reaches a data amount to be previously stored in order that continuous transfer of the image data to the side of the writing engine from the second storing part is available at a predetermined transfer rate, even when a predetermined delay occurs in a transfer operation of the image data from the first storing part to the second storing part, reading of the image data from the second storing part is started for starting image forming operation. | 06-28-2012 |
20120182580 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A first information processing apparatus inputs job data and a corresponding file associated with the job data to a hot folder of a second information processing apparatus. When the second information processing apparatus detects the corresponding file input to the hot folder, it determines whether the job data has been copied in the hot folder. If it is determined that the job data has been copied in the hot folder, the job data is processed. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182581 | PRINT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, CACHE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A print data processing apparatus process variable print data includes a cache unit, a determination unit, a determining unit, and a writing unit. The cache unit caches image data generated according to a drawing command included in the variable print data as cache data in a cache memory. The determination unit determines whether it is necessary to write the cache data in a secondary storage medium that is different from the cache memory. The determining unit determines cache data to be written in the secondary storage medium, in response to the determination unit determining that it is necessary to write the cache data in the secondary storage medium, based on a number of pages to be processed before each cache data cached in the cache memory is used next. The writing unit writes the cache data determined by the determining unit in the secondary storage medium. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182582 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes a buffer-full notification unit that gives a notification that a predetermined amount of image data is stored in a first buffer, a second buffer that is connected to the first buffer through a bus and temporarily stores image data read from the first buffer, an image forming member that forms an image on a medium on the basis of image data stored in the second buffer, and a read control unit that acquires image data stored in the first buffer through the bus and stores acquired image data in the second buffer, when a read command to read image data stored in the first buffer to store the read image data in the second buffer is generated and the notification is given from the buffer-full notification unit. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182583 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a memory buffer that has a plurality of band buffers for storing band data in which image data is divided into a plurality of bands; a data processing unit that performs a specific process with respect to the band data stored in the memory buffer; a storage unit having a storage area that store image data of a plurality of pages of an original of a specific size, storing processed band data that has been subjected to the specific process by the data processing unit into the storage area and, outputting a plurality of pieces of the processed band data stored in the storage area; and an output processing unit that performs a print process based on the plurality of pieces of the processed band data that is output from the storage unit. | 07-19-2012 |
20120194868 | System and Method for Updating Memories used to Store Information in a Printing System - Electronic systems, such as printing systems, often use components that have a memory. The integral memory can be used to store information about the component. In some printing systems this memory includes storing a portion that stores a value indicative of an amount of a consumable that has been used. Discloses is a method and system for updating a memory that is integral to a component within a printing system. The value stored in the memory can be read to determine an amount of a consumable used. Alternatively, when a specific value is stored in the memory the printing system can deactivate the component. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194869 | Image Forming Apparatus for Reducing Delay Which Occurs Due to Timings of Release and Allocation of a Video Buffer - This image forming apparatus includes: a development device configured to develop a toner image of a print image; an image carrier configured to transfer the toner image to a paper sheet; a print engine configured to control the development device and the image carrier; and a controller configured to control the print engine to perform printing. The print engine is further configured to provide a transfer-completion notice to the controller upon detecting completion of transferring the toner image from the image carrier to the paper sheet. The controller is further configured to store image data of the print image in a video buffer, read out the image data from the video buffer, provide control information based on the image data to the print engine, and release the video buffer upon receiving the transfer-completion notice. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194870 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PRINT SETTING OF IMAGE DATA - An image processing apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit that records data on a first recording medium and reproduces recorded data from the first recording medium; a recording unit that records data on a second recording medium; and a controller, when print designation information of the first image data cannot be recorded on the first recording medium, the print designation information indicates print processing of image data, controls the recording/reproducing unit and the recording unit to read the first image data from the first recording medium and record the first image data and print designation information of the first image data on the second recording medium. | 08-02-2012 |
20120200895 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to output the image data written in the bitmap format from an HDD without increasing the storage capacity of the DRAM, so as to implement the image forming operation in the high speed operating mode. The apparatus comprises an HDD that is provided with a first storage area and a second storage area; a conversion processing section to convert first data, inputted from an external environment and stored in the first storage area, to second data to be employed for an image forming operation. The first data and the second data are stored into the first storage area and the second storage area, respectively. The controlling operations for reading out the second data from the second storage area and for transmitting the second data to an image forming section are implemented in synchronization with an image forming timing, thereof. | 08-09-2012 |
20120206770 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ROTATING IMAGE TILES USING LINE SEGMENT READ BUFFERS - An embodiment generally relates to a device for rotating image tiles using line segment read buffers. The device comprises an image memory configured to store an image and a plurality of buffers, wherein the image comprises a plurality of tiles. The plurality of buffers comprises line segment read buffers configured to interface with the image memory to read line segments of the plurality of tiles from the image memory. A rotator logic module is configured to micro-rotate the line segments, aggregate the line segments as rotated tiles, and macro-rotate the rotated tiles to determine an address of the image memory at which to write the rotated tiles. Write buffers are configured to write the rotated tiles to the image memory at the determined address. | 08-16-2012 |
20120229856 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING START, AND START CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a memory unit that stores therein apparatus information on each function to be executed; and a control unit that reads the apparatus information stored in the memory unit to execute given control based on the apparatus information that is read; the image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium. The apparatus information is written sequentially and collectively for each function in the memory unit. | 09-13-2012 |
20120243047 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing system includes plural intermediate data generators, a first memory, and plural drawing data generators. Each of the plural intermediate data generators interprets an assigned data portion of document data, written in a page description language, to generate intermediate data. The first memory stores the intermediate data generated by each of the plural intermediate data generators. Each of the plural drawing data generators reads out the intermediate data from the first memory and generates drawing data in accordance with the read out intermediate data. The drawing data includes information about each pixel included in a printed image. Once an amount of intermediate data stored in the first memory exceeds a first threshold that is set in advance, the plural drawing data generators start reading out the intermediate data from the first memory. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243048 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A recording medium storing an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing system including a transmitting unit, a storing unit and a display unit, the program includes: a transmission control instruction that causes the transmitting unit to transmit first-kind data which is data having a first format designated as target data; a second-kind-data-storage control instruction that causes the storing unit to store second-kind data in association with a first data name of the first-kind data transmitted by the transmitting unit, the second-kind data being generated in a second format by converting the first-kind data transmitted by the transmitting unit, and being received from an external apparatus; and a first display control instruction that causes the display unit to display a display image generated using the second-kind data stored by the second-kind-data storing unit, together with the first data name associated with the second-kind data. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250092 | PRINT MANAGEMENT FOR PLURALITY OF PRINT REQUESTS IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a buffering unit, an information storage unit, a print processing unit, and a print management unit. The buffering unit receives print requests transmitted from the information processing apparatuses. The information storage unit stores information about documents that are requested to be printed in response to the print requests in an order in that the print requests are received by the buffering unit. The print processing unit performs a printing process. The print management unit, based on the print requests, designates the documents in an order in which the information about the documents is stored in the information storage unit, and directs the print processing unit to print the designated documents. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257253 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - If a fallback processing involving lossy compression occurs in PDL data including a special pattern, such as a texture pattern, an electronic watermark, or an Anoto pattern, the performance of the special pattern cannot be sufficiently exhibited by image degradation due to the compression. Moreover, in order to obtain an image quality capable of sufficiently exhibiting the performance of the special pattern, a high-capacity memory is necessary to raise the cost. Document information and additional information are sequentially received from other device, and a pre-preparation processing for bit-mapping the document information is started, and upon receipt of the additional information by a receiving unit, a bit map is generated using the information (display list) obtained by the pre-preparation processing for the document information. The generated bit map is compressed and the compressed bit map is associated with the information that is obtained by the pre-preparation processing for the additional information. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257254 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided with a storage unit for storing setting information including at least a size of a substitute recording medium, and a processing unit for executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage means, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available. | 10-11-2012 |
20120268788 | CONTROL FOR USER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the image forming apparatus is in a system operating state of being constructed in such a manner as to supply the paper, on which the first image data is printed, via the output unit to the other image forming apparatus, a unit configured to, in a case where it is determined that the image forming apparatus is in the system operating state by the determining unit, obtain user management information of the other image forming apparatus from the apparatus, a unit configured to combine the obtained user management information of the other image forming apparatus with the user management information stored in the storage unit to generate combination user management information used at the system operating state, and a unit configured to store the generated combination user management information in the storage unit. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268789 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus specifies a factor why a decrease of a data transfer rate to the storing unit occurs in consideration of a vibration source that vibrates along with image forming processing of an image forming apparatus, and notifies the factor to a user. A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus that performs image forming processing by driving a driving member includes storing data in a storing unit, measuring a transfer rate in transferring predetermined data to the storing unit while driving the driving member, specifying a transfer rate in transferring the predetermined data to the storing unit while suspending an operation of the driving member, and notifying a factor why a decrease of the data transfer rate to the storing unit occurs according to the measured transfer rate and the specified transfer rate. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268790 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is capable of connecting a removable storage device that stores operation data controlling an operation of the image forming apparatus. When a shutdown instruction of the image forming apparatus is received from a user, it is determined whether or not it is necessary to execute an operation using the operation data stored in the removable storage device. In a case that it is determined that it is necessary to execute an operation using the operation data, the image forming apparatus stores the operation data stored in the removable storage device into an incorporated non-volatile storage unit and shots down, and then restart. After the restart is performed, it is controlled so that an operation using the operation data that has been stored in the incorporated non-volatile storage unit is executed. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268791 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A technique can prevent a parameter that is not to be read and set from history information and related to image formation from being read and reset from the history information. A method for controlling an image forming apparatus, includes setting a parameter for an adjustment item related to image formation, determining whether the adjustment item corresponding to the set parameter includes a storage inhibition item, performing control to store the set parameter as history information in a storing unit in a case where it is determined that the adjustment item does not include the storage inhibition item, and not to store the set parameter unit as the history information to the storing unit in a case where it is determined that the adjustment item includes the storage inhibition item, and setting the parameter stored in the storing unit to the adjustment item related to the image formation. | 10-25-2012 |
20120281254 | GENERATION AND REGENERATION OF WEB APPLICATION PAGES FOR PRINTING - A computer implemented method for generating a printable electronic document for a plurality of web pages from a web application, can include for each web page of the plurality of web pages from the web application receiving, by the web application, in-progress transaction record data, receiving access to print cache content associated with the in-progress transaction record data, obtaining, from the print cache content, a snapshot of data for the web page, obtaining a subset of the in-progress transaction record data that is referenced by a web page template, comparing, with a processing device used by the web application, the snapshot of data in the print cache and the subset of the in progress data that is referenced by the web page template, selecting at least one of regenerating an electronic document printable page for the web page and retrieving a previously-generated electronic document printable page for the web page from the print cache content, and adding at least one of the regenerated electronic document printable page and the retrieved electronic document printable page to the printable electronic document. | 11-08-2012 |
20120300260 | PRINTING APPARATUS WITH SEMICONDUCTOR NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus that is capable of preventing a reduction of read rate and recovering a read error. A control unit manages controls of the entire apparatus. A storage unit is provided with a semiconductor nonvolatile storage device that is controlled by the control unit to store data and a storage control unit with a function that executes a refreshment operation for the semiconductor nonvolatile storage device at the time of reading the data. The control unit suppresses the refreshment operation when detecting an execution of a processing operation that requires a high processing speed, and permits the refreshment operation after the end the processing operation that requires the high processing speed. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307309 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, INFORMATION FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307310 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DATA MANAGEMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - While one print job is in process, a determination is made whether reusable data reusable by another print job is under access control. If the reusable data is determined to be under access control, the reusable data is stored such that it is not reusable by another print job. If the reusable data is determined not to be under access control, the reusable data is stored such that it is reusable by another print job, and an image formed using the stored reusable data. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307311 | Image copying method and device - The disclosure discloses an image copying method, which includes the steps of: copying, an image to be copied, to a destination address line by line, in the case of the image to be copied having a width of one pixel; copying, the image to be copied, to the destination address by a number of bytes according to a size of the image to be copied, in the case of the image to be copied not having a width of one pixel. The image copying method can save the image copying time and deduce the Central Processing Unit (CPU) occupation rate. | 12-06-2012 |
20120320423 | PRINTING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH PLURAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING PRINT DATA, PRINTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus has a first memory of a high data access speed and a second memory of a low data access speed, the first memory having a small memory capacity and the second memory having a large memory capacity. The printing apparatus has a receiver for receiving print data in parallel from plural host apparatuses, a judging unit for judging whether the first memory is in use, and a storing-process controller for storing the print data in the first memory, when the judging unit determines that the first memory is not in use, and for storing the print data in the second memory, when the judging unit determines that the first memory is in use. The printing apparatus prints the print data of a high priority order on a print medium with use of the first memory. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327473 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STARTUP OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a startup file for determining an initialized state of a plurality of devices, and a storage unit configured to store a state of each device after initialization as a startup image. When a shutdown request is issued, the image forming apparatus compares the startup file of any device specified by the startup image with the stored corresponding startup file to determine whether the state is changed. In a case where it is determined that the state of the startup file is changed, the image forming apparatus deletes the startup image stored in the storage unit for the state. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327474 | PRINTING APPARATUS, DATA CONTROL METHOD THEREIN, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A printing apparatus prints based on print data in the first state if printing is executable in the first state, and prints based on the print data in the second state different from the first state if printing is not executable in the first state. When deleting print data which meets a predetermined condition, the printing apparatus specifies print data which meets the predetermined condition, among print data which has been printed in the first state. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327475 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - In a data processing apparatus of the present invention, a disk unit storing a disk is mounted on the apparatus such that the surface of the disk is parallel to the direction of a shock or an impact. This protects the disk unit and therefore the disk from the influence of shocks and impacts as far as possible. | 12-27-2012 |
20130010334 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes: a print data storing unit that stores therein input print data; a delay-time input unit that inputs delay time for receiving a print of the print data; a controlling unit that controls start timing of printing by referring to the delay time for receiving the print that has been input from the delay-time input unit, actual time, and a printing state; and a printing unit that converts the print data stored in the print data storing unit into printing image data suitable for printing and starts printing. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016398 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMAANM Oyama; NaokiAACI Yokohama-shiAACO JPAAGP Oyama; Naoki Yokohama-shi JP - The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of attaching a storage medium, the image forming apparatus including an input unit configured to input information indicating data write speed into a storage medium attached to the image forming apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether the storage medium can be used in each function which the image forming apparatus has, based on information indicating the data write speed input by the input unit, and a presentation unit configured to present a determination result of the determination unit to a user. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DELETING OR RETREATING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS DATAAANM Kobayashi; MakotoAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Kobayashi; Makoto Tokyo JP - A system for managing operational setting information of an image forming apparatus, which is operable as an information processing system that enables a managing apparatus of the image forming apparatus to delete or retreat management data when the image forming apparatus performs data deletion processing or data retreat processing. | 01-17-2013 |
20130027748 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an image processing apparatus which reads out image data for each unit region from stored image data in a scanning direction in printing and sequentially performs image processing, image data before image processing in a unit region preceding a unit region to undergo image processing is stored by a predetermined width from the first boundary between the preceding unit region and the unit region to undergo image processing. Image processing is performed by referring to the image data before image processing by the predetermined width from the first boundary, and image data before image processing in a unit region succeeding the unit region to undergo image processing by a predetermined width from the second boundary between the unit region to undergo image processing and the succeeding unit region. | 01-31-2013 |
20130033728 | Image Transform Signature Generation Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first data component of an image data stream at a cache within a control unit, appending a first signature value to the first data component to obtain a first modified image data and generating a second signature value based on the first modified image data. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033729 | CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH CONTROL PROGRAM IS STORED, AND PRINTER - A control apparatus, which is configured to communicate with an external apparatus, to control a display section and a printing section, and to execute a plurality of processing in parallel, includes: a storage section which is configured to store image data to be supplied to the display section and first data transmitted from the external apparatus, a first processing executing section which is configured to execute a first processing in which the image data is supplied to the display section; a second processing executing section which is configured to execute a second processing, which is to be executed in parallel with the first processing, and in which a predetermined image processing is applied to the first data to generate second data to be stored in the storage section; and an identifying section which is configured to identify the number of the second data stored in the storage section. | 02-07-2013 |
20130038906 | Image Forming Apparatus Having a File System - An image forming apparatus includes a main storage unit; an auxiliary storage unit; a file system configured to manage a file stored in the auxiliary storage unit; and an input-output processing unit configured to use an area in the main storage unit to perform file access to a file in the file system. The area is in a storage area that is not managed by an operating system and the area is specified with a physical address in an instruction from a user process. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044355 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: at least three storing devices; a detecting unit; and a control unit, wherein the striping is carried out by using all of the storing devices, and the mirroring is carried out by using at least two of the storing devices except at least one storing device. When one of the storing device is failed, in case that the mirroring was carried out by using the failed storing device, the mirroring is continued by using the one storing device which is not used for carrying out the mirroring instead of the failed storing device. The striping is carried out by using all of the storing devices except the failed storing device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130050762 | SMALL AIO (ALL IN ONE) PRINTER THAT USES EXTERNAL STORAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAPER COLLATION - A method implemented in a data processing system including an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job; (c) determining if the job information includes an instruction to print multiple copies of the document in a collated order; (d) forwarding the data representing the document to be printed in the print job to an external storage unit when multiple copies of the document in collated order have been requested; (e) retrieving the data from the external storage unit; and (f) printing the multiple copies of the document in collated order. | 02-28-2013 |
20130057920 | APPARATUS THAT INHIBITS LEAVING AND FORGETTING OF ORIGINALS - Each user can use an image forming system by performing authentication through an ID card. In a case where a first user does not remove an original even though reading of the original has finished, a user ID of the first user is stored. Next, when a second user removes the original, the user ID of the second user is stored associated with the user ID of the first user. The user ID of the first user who forgot the original and the user ID of the second user who removed this original are outputted, and therefore the first user can more easily discover the original by inquiring to the second user of the whereabouts of the original. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057921 | UPDATING A SUPPORTED-SUPPLIES DATABASE OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to update a supported-supplies database ( | 03-07-2013 |
20130070301 | UNIT USING OPERATING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A chip mountable on a customer replaceable unit monitoring memory (CRUM) unit used in an image forming job includes a central processing unit (CPU) with an operating system (OS) thereof, which is separate from an OS of the image forming apparatus, to perform at least one of authentication and cryptographic data communication with a main body of an image forming apparatus by executing one cryptographic algorithm corresponding to a set state from among a plurality of pre-provided cryptographic algorithms, using the OS thereof. The security of a unit on which the chip is mounted can thereby be reinforced and random changes of data of the unit can be prevented. | 03-21-2013 |
20130083362 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS,STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM,AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a first acquiring controller which acquires a first file; a second acquiring controller which acquires area information to indicate a storage area on a predetermined storage medium, the first file acquired by the first acquiring controller being stored in the storage area; a generating controller which generates a second file having an additional information area capable of storing additional information, from the first file acquired by the first acquiring controller; and a storing controller which stores the area information acquired by the second acquiring controller as the additional information in the additional information area of the second file generated by the generating controller. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083363 | FAULT TOLERANT PRINTING SYSTEM - According to a technique described herein, whenever there are print jobs waiting in a currently idle printing device's queue, the printing device selects, from among those print jobs, the longest-waiting print job that does not require any resources that the printing device cannot currently supply without human intervention. The printing device removes that print job from the queue and prints that print job, even if other print jobs have been waiting longer in the queue. If the queue contains print jobs that the printing device cannot currently print because the printing device currently lacks sufficient resources to print those print jobs completely, then, for each such print job, the printing device displays reasons why that print job cannot currently be printed. The reasons may include information that identifies the qualities and/or quantities of the resources that the printing device currently lacks but needs. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088753 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVIEWING PRINTING - A printing apparatus, a method, and a system for previewing printing are provided. The provided method includes receiving a printing job; determining whether the printing job includes a preview printing command; storing a printing data when the printing job includes the preview printing command; printing the printing data; when the printing job is determined to include the preview printing command, determining whether to continue executing the printing job; and when it is determined to continue executing the printing job, continuing to print the printing data. Thus, after the printing data is printed, a user can directly review the printing quality when he or she is beside the printing apparatus, and the user can continue to execute the printing job. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088754 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming system including plural image forming devices that form an image, each including: a storage unit that stores user identification information for identifying users and image data that represents an image in correlation, a receiving unit that receives the user identification information of any of the users, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information from the storage unit included in the subject device when the image data is stored in the storage unit, a second acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information and stored in the storage unit included in another image forming device different from the subject device when the first acquiring unit is unable to acquire the image data, and an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data acquired by the first or second acquiring unit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088755 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INITIALIZATION OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING NAND FLASH MEMORY - A device and method for controlling the initiation of an image forming apparatus are provided using a NAND flash memory. The device for controlling initiation of an image forming apparatus includes: a NAND flash memory for storing a boot program and system control programs for initiating the image forming apparatus; a random-access-memory (RAM) for temporarily storing an execution program and data; and a driving unit arranged to first read the boot program and an engine control program among the system control programs from the NAND flash memory, execute the boot program and the engine control program, then read remaining system control programs from the NAND flash memory and store the remaining system control programs in the RAM when the boot program and the engine control program are being executed. Since the remaining system control programs and data that have not been read during printing preparation are read by driving a driving unit of the image forming apparatus, the preparation time for the image forming apparatus to begin printing operation can be greatly shortened. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088756 | Image Processing Device - An image processing device carries out processing in a processing unit of 3-blocks. Data of 192(=64×3)-pixels is required in the processing of 3-blocks. This is an amount of data corresponding to 16-cells. When 3-blocks and 16-cells are arranged along an scanning direction of an image, both ends of them in the scanning direction are aligned. | 04-11-2013 |
20130100500 | DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An electronic device connectable to a control device and an external storage device. The electronic device includes a request receiving unit configured to receive a request for obtaining information from the control device, a gathering unit configured to gather information based on the received request, a determining unit configured to determine whether the received request is requesting information larger than a predetermined size, and a sending unit configured to send the gathered information to the external storage device when the determining unit determines that the received request is requesting information larger than the predetermined size, and configured to send the gathered information to the control device when the determining unit determines that the received request is not requesting information larger than the predetermined size. | 04-25-2013 |
20130128313 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, BACKUP AND RESTORE PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus operates according to setting information, and includes a storage unit for storing the setting information; an interface for connecting a portable storage medium; a processing unit for reading/writing the setting information from/to the storage unit, and reading/writing the setting information from/to the portable storage medium via the interface, and a log creating unit for creating a first processing result log indicating a first processing result of a reading/writing process when the processing unit reads the setting information from the storage unit and writes the setting information in the portable storage medium, and storing the first processing result log, and creating a second processing result log indicating a second processing result of a reading/writing process when the processing unit reads the setting information from the portable storage medium and writes the setting information in the storage unit, and storing the second processing result log. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135679 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Disclosed are a printing apparatus for executing print processing based upon print data and a method of controlling this apparatus. The print data is saved in a first memory area, the print data, which has been saved in the first memory area, is rendered into image data, the rendered image data is stored in a second memory area, and printing is performed using the image data. A determination is made as to whether the image data, which has been stored in the second memory area, is to be saved for the purpose of reprint process. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135680 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE INFORMATION - A determination unit determines whether or not an image forming device is a pre-designated image forming device by using specifying information when security setting including the specifying information that specifies the pre-designated image forming device has been made in image data read from a portable external storage device. A display control unit causes a display unit to display image information specifying the image formed on the basis of the image data in a state in which security of the contents of the image is ensured when the image forming device is not determined by the determination unit to be the pre-designated image forming device, and causes the display unit to display the image information in a state in which security of the contents of the image is not ensured when the image forming device is determined by the determination unit to be the pre-designated image forming device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135681 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - One of two replaceable components is selectively detachably attached to an apparatus. A first component includes first information that includes first lifetime indicative of a lifetime of the first component and is used for managing usage of the first component. A second component includes second information for managing usage of the second component. A controller determines, based on one of the first and second lifetimes, whether the apparatus should operate. The controller drives the apparatus to operate based on the first lifetime if a read/write section successfully reads the first lifetime from one of the first and second components that has been attached to the apparatus. The controller drives the apparatus to operate based on the second lifetime if the read/write section fails to read the first lifetime from one of the first and second components that has been attached to the apparatus. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141762 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CHANGING PARTITIONS OF STORAGE UNIT, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus capable of changing partitions of a storage unit without using another storage unit stored with a system for partition change. At startup of the image forming apparatus, a file system is developed on a DRAM from a flash memory and executed by a CPU of the image forming apparatus. When determining that partition change is to be performed, a partition change module that operates on the CPU performs the partition change in a state where the flash memory is not mounted. Subsequently, an operating system placed on the flash memory is started up. | 06-06-2013 |
20130155465 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SCANNING AND/OR PRINTING AN IMAGE - A scanning apparatus and a method thereof include a scanning unit scanning a document and outputting a scanned result, at least one external storage unit detachably attached to the apparatus, at least one internal storage unit, and a controller detecting an attachment state of the external storage unit and storing the scanned result in one of the external storage unit and the internal storage unit according to the attachment state of the external storage unit. The scanning unit of the scanning apparatus is combined with a user scanning unit and a user printing unit into a combination apparatus, and the scanned result is printed in a printing apparatus spaced-apart from the scanning apparatus by a distance, thereby removing cables between the scanning or printing apparatus and a personal computer. Regardless of an attachment state of the external storage unit, the document is scanned in the real time, and the scanning apparatus is commonly used with a plurality of personal computers which are not connected to the scanning apparatus. | 06-20-2013 |
20130176595 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing apparatus includes: a job storage unit configured to store a print job; a printing unit configured to perform a printing operation based on the stored print job; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction to disconnect connection with an external apparatus; and a control device configured to perform: an establishment process of establishing connection with the external apparatus; a storage process of storing a print job received from the external apparatus in the job storage unit; a first deletion process of deleting the print job, for which a printing-related operation has been completed, from the job storage unit; a disconnection process of disconnecting the connection in response to a disconnection instruction received by the receiving unit; and a prohibition process of prohibiting performing the disconnection process after the printing-related operation starts until all the print jobs are deleted from the job storage unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130194635 | DATA STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A data storage control apparatus includes an operation receiving unit that receives an operation to be performed on data, and a generating unit that generates, in a storage area associated with a content of the operation received by the operation receiving unit, data that are a target of the operation received by the operation receiving unit or information relating to the data. | 08-01-2013 |
20130208320 | USING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A consumable product ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130222851 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, CONTROL DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an information processor including: an operation unit performing logical operation or arithmetical operation; an execution unit executing predetermined functions based on the operation results; a clock signal generating unit generating a first clock signal to be a reference; a clock signal multiplying unit performing a multiplication operation on the first clock signal to generate a second clock signal; a clock signal selection unit selecting one of the first or second clock signals and supplies the selected signal to the execution unit; a memory storing data for setting the execution unit to be in an executable state in a readable and writable non-volatile memory; and a setting unit setting the execution unit to be in an executable state by causing the clock signal selection unit to select the first clock signal when reset is released and reading the data from the memory to start writing the data. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222852 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided with a storage unit for storing setting information including at least a size of a substitute recording medium, and a processing unit for executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage means, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222853 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus allocates a value of page attribute to each page included in a job according to a job attribute set to the job in an intermediate code format that corresponds to data to be printed generated by an application. If a combining instruction is issued to combine a plurality of jobs whose specific job attributes in which only one attribute value can be allocated to one job are allocated different attribute values, the apparatus processes the intermediate code format data so that printing is performed according to the allocated page attribute values. The apparatus then generates a combined job and transmits the generated combined job as print data to the printing apparatus. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222854 | Fiscal Memory Control Method, Fiscal Control Circuit Board, And Fiscal Printer - High speed reading of fiscal information from memory is enabled while complying with financial regulations. Including fiscal memory | 08-29-2013 |
20130235428 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing system, having an image processing apparatus, includes a log management section configured to manage logs recording operations executed on the image processing apparatus, condition data to specify a characteristic of an operation needing to be checked, data for generating items to specify items in the logs to be preserved, and a storage device to store the specified items in the logs, wherein the log management section determines whether an executed operation satisfying the characteristic in the condition data has been executed, then upon a positive determination, specifies items corresponding to the executed operation in the logs to be preserved according to the data for generating items. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235429 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, provided is an image forming apparatus available for use with a memory card, the memory card including a housing that includes a built-in memory device and a terminal exposed from the housing. The image forming apparatus includes: a memory-card storing section that includes a pit for storing the memory card therein, the memory-card storing section being provided in a main body of the image forming apparatus as an apparatus main body; and an outer cover detachably attached to the apparatus main body to cover the memory-card storing section. At least one portion of the memory-card storing section is configured to be brought into contact with the housing of the memory card when the memory card is stored in the memory-card storing section and is configured to be electrically connected to a ground of the apparatus main body. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242348 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores programs for a computer to execute a method of controlling a print job of a document from an application. The programs includes a controlling program to control the print job with a job ID, a setting receiving program to receive a setting condition, an image processing program to convert the document into print data, and a print data processing program to store the job ID with image data. The method includes the steps of obtaining the job ID, generating the image data, and storing the job ID with the image data into the print data processing program, executed by the setting receiving program, and the steps of obtaining the document and the job ID, receiving the image data, and converting the image data and the document into the print data, executed by the image processing program. | 09-19-2013 |
20130258408 | PRINTER - A printer includes: a generation unit sequentially converting each of partial original data of a plurality of pages included in original data designated as a print target by a specific user into each of partial print data in a memory; a supply unit sequentially supplying each of the partial print data to a print execution unit; and a confirmation unit, whenever the partial print data of one page is generated, confirming whether the specific user is present around the printer. When it is not confirmed that the specific user is present around the printer when first partial print data of one page is generated, the supply unit does not supply the first partial print data to the print execution unit, and the generation unit starts to generate second partial print data of another page in the memory. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258409 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus capable of improving convenience for a user is provided. This image forming apparatus includes: a non-volatile storage portion that stores beforehand each snapshot picked out from a plurality of snapshots which are obtained by dividing an image when firmware for executing a plurality of kinds of jobs is deployed; a priority storage portion that stores priorities when putting the plurality of kinds of jobs into an executable state; an operation portion that accepts a setting change of the priority to be stored into the priority storage portion; and a volatile storage portion that at a power input time, based on the priorities stored in the priority storage portion, acquires and deploys a snapshot necessary for execution of each job in an order of a highest-priority job to a lowest-priority job, thereby putting first the job having the highest priority into the executable state. | 10-03-2013 |
20130278967 | Printer Calibration System and Associated Methods - A dynamically applicable system to calibrate a number of printers having a controller including a processor and memory to control printing a document relative to characteristics of the document using the printer. Calibration settings for the printer may be manipulable. Calibration may be performed by comparing a calibration pattern to a marking on a calibration document. Additionally, calibration may be performed by comparing a calibration pattern with a crease. The controller may calculate calibration settings from calibration information received using an interface. Calibration settings are storable on memory or a database. The system may communicate with other devices over a network. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278968 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus acquires storage location information representing a storage location of an image file in a first external information processing apparatus from an image reading apparatus, and determines whether the storage location of the image file can store the image file based on the acquired storage location information. When it determines that the storage location of the image file can store the image file, it acquires screen information used to generate a screen for generating a scan ticket designating a storage location, from a second external information processing apparatus, and displays the screen for generating the scan ticket based on the acquired screen information. | 10-24-2013 |
20130321867 | TYPOGRAPHICAL BLOCK GENERATION - Embodiments of a computer-implemented method for grouping one or more token elements comprising one or more characters in an input file. The method comprises computing a first leading distance between a first baseline of a first token element, and a second baseline of a second token element. The method further comprises defining a block with the first token element and the second token element, and characterizing the first leading distance as a leading distance of the block. The method further comprises computing a second leading distance between the second baseline and a third baseline of a third token element. The method furthermore comprises, grouping the third token element in to the block based on a first difference between the second leading distance and the leading distance of the block lying within a first predefined threshold value. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321868 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - To provide a technology enabling a terminal device to use various functions provided in a data processing device without the use of a device driver. A multifunction device executes a process for implementing a function indicated by instruction data when such instruction data is stored in a shared area of the RAM. Here, the shared area of the RAM in which the instruction data is stored can be recognized by a personal computer connected to the multifunction device as a storage area that can be accessed through the file system, which is a function provided as a standard feature of the operating system. Accordingly, operations of the multifunction device can be controlled from the personal computer end simply by storing instruction data in the shared area via the operating system, eliminating the need for a special device driver to control the operations of the multifunction device. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329260 | System and Method for Merged Image Alignment in Raster Image Data - A method of combining digital image data from two different images in a printer enables improved precision of alignment of the image data. The method includes copying a word of first image data into a memory buffer, shifting a word of image data by a predetermined bit offset, overwriting a portion of the first image data with shifted bits from the second word of image data, and copying the shifted word of image data into the memory buffer. The printer forms a line of a printed image using the first and second image data in the memory buffer. | 12-12-2013 |
20130335778 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD OF PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus | 12-19-2013 |
20130335779 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus rendering a plurality of objects includes a CPU cache used for rendering, a determination unit configured to determine whether a cache miss of the CPU cache occurs in rendering of the plurality of objects, and a rendering unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the cache miss occurs, execute division rendering processing for generating a bitmap corresponding to the plurality of objects by classifying the plurality of objects into a plurality of groups and for rendering the plurality of objects by each group so that the cache miss does not occur, and, in a case where the determination unit does not determine that the cache miss occurs, generate a bitmap corresponding to the plurality of objects by executing rendering without classifying the plurality of objects into the plurality of groups. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342873 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF,AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including a memory includes a first conversion method configured to perform conversion processing for converting an image represented by span information in page line sequence into span information in tile sequence, using the memory; a second conversion unit configured to perform conversion processing for converting an image represented by pixel information in page line sequence into pixel information in tile sequence, using the memory; and a control unit configured to control a conversion unit employing a less usage amount of the memory used in a case that a process target image is converted into tiles, of the first conversion unit and the second conversion unit, to perform the conversion processing on the process target image. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002863 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
20140029055 | SHEET PROFILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SHEET PROFILE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An image forming system is configured with: an image forming section configured to form, on a sheet, an image based on graphic data; a storing section configured to store sheet profiles which are information about sheets to be used by the image forming section to form images; and a control section configured to manage the sheet profile stored in the storing section and to control the image forming section to form an image, wherein when storing produced sheet profiles in the storing section, the control section associates a plurality of sheet profiles, to be used to perform a predetermined image formation, with each other, and puts the associated sheet profiles in a state where limitation of edit is enforced. | 01-30-2014 |
20140043653 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores management information about image processing of data recorded on a recording medium connected to the image processing apparatus, a reading unit that reads data from the recording medium, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the read data, and a control unit that controls reading of the data from the recording medium and the image processing according to the management information, wherein the control unit causes the reading unit, when it is detected that connection with the recording medium has been disconnected and image processing of a number of times specified by the management information is not completed, to read the data in response to detection of connection with the recording medium, and causes the image processing unit to execute image processing of a remaining number of times out of the specified number of times. | 02-13-2014 |
20140063554 | Image Forming Apparatus - A CPU perform the steps of:
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20140071493 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE OUTPUT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, a control unit, an image forming section and a notification unit. The storage unit configured to keep a job that is input and designated a print start timing in a printable state. The control unit configured to accept a print start instruction. The image forming section configured to execute an image forming corresponding to the job stored in the storage unit according to the print start instruction from the control unit. The notification unit configured to notify the execution of the job. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071494 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus to which an option unit can be connected includes a storage unit configured to store an update program for updating an option unit program, and an update unit configured to, if an option unit has been connected to the printing apparatus, update the option unit program using an update program stored by the storage unit. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078553 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to record output data to a first storage unit; an administration unit configured to administer a holding period of the output data held by the first storage unit; a setting unit configured to set the holding period of the output data; a second storage unit configured to store condition information used to determine whether or not to accept the setting of the holding period for the output data; a reception unit configured to receive a setting request of a holding period for the output data; and a setting control unit configured to control the setting of the holding period for the output data with the setting unit, on the basis of the condition information in accordance with the setting request. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085679 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image data processing device includes a first integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit, and a third integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit includes a first image processing circuit for first image processing for image data in a first memory, and a first serial interface for direct memory access transfer between the first memory and a third memory. The second integrated circuit includes a second image processing circuit for second image processing for image data in a second memory, and a second serial interface for direct memory access transfer between the second memory and the third memory. The third integrated circuit includes a third image processing circuit for third image processing for image data in the third memory, and a third serial interface for direct memory access transfer between the third memory and the first memory, and between the third memory and the second memory. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092435 | APPLYING INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES TO PRINTED DOCUMENTS - Applying individual preferences to printed documents, including: receiving, by a preference application module, a print request; identifying, by the preference application module, one or more identifiers of users associated with the print request; retrieving, by the preference application module, print preferences for the one or more identifiers of users associated with the print request; and generating, by the preference application module, one or more individualized print jobs for each of the users in dependence upon the print preferences. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092436 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND LOG RECORDING METHOD - A printing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store print data a printing unit configured to print the print data; and a control device configured to: erase the print data from the storage unit, when a cancel instruction to cancel printing of the print data stored in the storage unit is detected; generate a log before erasing the print data, the generated log including a first log related to erasing target data which is a portion of the print data to be erased; and store the generated log in a storage device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092437 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND LOG RECORDING METHOD - A printing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store print data; a printing unit configured to print the print data; and a control device configured to, suspend, when a suspension condition of suspending the printing of the print data by the printing unit is satisfied, the printing of the print data until the suspension condition is not satisfied, and store a log related to the print data in a storage device, wherein, when the suspension condition is satisfied, the control device is configured to store the log in the storage device before the printing of the print data is started, and wherein, when the suspension condition is not satisfied, the control device is configured to store the log in the storage device after the printing of the print data is started. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098404 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a wide IO memory device stacked on an SoC die that includes a CPU, acquires temperature information of multiple memories in the wide IO memory device, loads applications for executing separate functions to multiple memories, excluding the memory positioned above the circuit on the SoC die related to the function to be executed by the application, and, when the execution of the loaded application is instructed, executes the application loaded to the memory having a lower temperature that was acquired. | 04-10-2014 |
20140126023 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area. | 05-08-2014 |
20140153050 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT GENERATES LOG IMAGE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image output unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, an original-image generating device, and a log-image generating device. The image output unit outputs an image. The nonvolatile storage unit stores information even in the event of a power interruption. The original-image generating device generates an original image in the nonvolatile storage unit. The log-image generating device generates a log image based on the original image. Further, when the image forming apparatus is started, if the original image is stored in the nonvolatile storage unit, the log-image generating device generates the log image based on the original image stored in the nonvolatile storage unit. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160531 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mechanism of preferentially using a memory layer which suffers a small influence of heat of an SOC die, based on the positional relationship between the SOC die and the memory layer, and decreasing the refresh frequency of the DRAM and a leakage current. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus allocates, in order to execute an accepted job, a memory area for executing the job preferentially from a memory physically farthest from the SOC die among a plurality of memories, and then executes the job. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168707 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system comprises a generation unit which generates a browsing image by performing image processing for image data acquired by scanning; a holding unit which holds, in a storage unit for each use when the image data was printed out, information which defines image processing for converting the browsing image into image data for printing; a specification unit which specifies a use of image data corresponding to the browsing image upon accepting an instruction to print the browsing image; a conversion unit which converts the browsing image into image data for printing by deciding, in accordance with the information in the storage unit, image processing corresponding to the use of the specified image data, and applying the decided image processing to the browsing image; and a control unit which controls a printing unit to output the image data for printing. | 06-19-2014 |
20140185098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, a data handling unit (a) estimates a size of the intermediate data on the basis of the image data, and (b) selects one of a first rendering mode and a second rendering mode on the basis of a size of the image data and the estimated size of the intermediate data. In the first rendering mode, the data handling unit makes a copy of the image data and stores the copy in the storage device and causes a rendering unit to generate bitmap image data from the image data stored in the storage device. In the second rendering mode, the data handling unit causes the rendering unit to generate the bitmap image data from the image data stored in the removable drive. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a first storage device, a second storage device, a rendering unit, and a data handling unit. The rendering unit is configured (a) to generate intermediate data from image data, store the intermediate data in at least one of the first storage device and the second storage device, and (b) to generate bitmap image data on the basis of the intermediate data. The data handling unit is configured to select one of the first storage device and the second storage device as a storing place of the intermediate data on the basis of free area sizes of the first storage device and the second storage device and data transfer rates of the first storage device and the second storage device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140204423 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT BASED ON A SELECTED FILE - A system can include a print type classifier to receive a print message that indicates that a file has been selected to be printed. The print type classifier can also determine a print type of the file. The system can also include a print content analyzer to assign a category to the file characterizing a topic of the file based on the content of the file. The print type analyzer can also generate a content representation of the file that characterizes a summary of content of the file. The system can further include a recommendation engine to provide supplemental content based on at least one of the print type, the category and the content representation of the file, wherein the supplemental content is in a printable format. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204424 | PRINT INTENT TYPE - A system can include a page type classifier to determine a page type of a file. The system can also include a print intent identifier to map the page type of the file to a print intent subtype of the file. The print intent identifier can also map the print intent subtype of the file to a print intent type of the file. The print intent type of the file can characterize a reason to at least one of print and store the file. | 07-24-2014 |
20140211261 | WRITING CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a writing control device including: a storing unit comprising N HDDs, N being an integer which is 2 or more; a data division unit configured to divide data to be written in the storing unit into N unequal division data; and a writing control unit configured to dispersedly store the N division data in the N HDDs in parallel, wherein the N division data include a first division data and a second division data having a larger data size than the first division data, and the writing control unit writes the second division data in tracks of a portion of the HDD, which is positioned on an outer side than a portion in which the first division data is written. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211262 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, a memory area management portion generates a descriptor for a block storage area allocated in each of a first work memory and a second work memory, and generates sub-band management data associated with the descriptor for the block storage area in which compressed sub-band data is stored, sequentially according to arrangement of the sub-band data in the primary scanning direction and the secondary scanning direction in image data. A data loading portion changes, according to a rotation angle, the association between the sub-band management data and the descriptor after the compressed sub-band data is stored in the second work memory. A decompression processing portion performs rotating process in the sub-band data according to the rotation angle. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218767 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus that performs image processing using information stored in a semiconductor memory includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain from the semiconductor memory a block size used for data reading and writing, and a management unit configured to discretely arrange and manage, with respect to a specific region set in the semiconductor memory, use-based information to be updated along with execution of the image processing, included in the stored information, according to the obtained block size. | 08-07-2014 |
20140240783 | Bitmap Rotation Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes allocating a decompressor for each scanline of an input image represented as compressed bitmap data, allocating tiles to store bitmap data representing a rotation of the image and generating a rotated output image represented as compressed bitmap data. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240784 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING PRINT DATA TO PRINT DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In case of searching and outputting output information stored in a memory, it enables a user of the host computer to select the device of storing the output information, whereby the load in searching and outputting the information is reduced. To do so, when the host computer causes the printer to print the image based on the print data, the hard disk of the multifunctional device is selected from among the plural hard disks, as the storage destination to which the print data is stored and from which the stored print data can be searched and output. Then, the information representing the storage destination and the print data are transmitted to the printer so as to be printed, and the print data is also transmitted to the multifunctional device to be stored. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253974 | METHODS PROVIDING PRINT FULFILLMENT FOR DIGITAL IMAGES OVER A DIGITAL NETWORK AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - Methods of providing print fulfillment for digital images may include saving an image selection property in digital memory, saving a hatching property in digital memory, and saving digital images and associated image data in digital memory. A group of the digital images that satisfy the image selection property saved in digital memory may be selected, and it may be determined if the hatching property saved in digital memory is satisfied for the group of the digital images having associated image data that satisfy the image selection property. If the hatching property is satisfied, a print fulfillment order may be transmitted over a digital network requesting prints of the group of the digital images. Related systems and computer program products are also discussed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140285849 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - A document management apparatus includes a holding unit, a searching unit, and a deletion unit. The holding unit holds print data that includes an image of a printed document and attribute information on the printed document. In a case where an image of a document to be registered and attribute information on the document to be registered are registered in the holding unit, the holding unit holds deletion information and the attribute information on the document to be registered in association with each other. In a case where the document to be registered is registered in the holding unit, the searching unit searches the print data held in the holding unit for print data having the deletion information associated with the attribute information on the registered document. The deletion unit deletes at least an image of a document included in the print data found as a result of the search. | 09-25-2014 |
20140293354 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD CAPABLE OF COPYING DOCUMENT - No chase control is performed in copying utilizing ACS (auto color select) determination processing. ACS determination is performed to determine whether image data is color or black-and-white image data and the chase control is performed after the ACS determination is completed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140333967 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REDUCING IMAGE FORMATION TIME AFTER A FIRWARE UPDATE - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on input data, a storage unit configured to store image-processed data obtained by the image processing performed by the image processing unit, an output unit configured to output the image-processed data to a printing unit, an update unit configured to update firmware related to the image processing unit, and a control unit configured to, when the image processing by the image processing unit is changed by the updating of the firmware by the update unit, cause the image processing unit to perform the image processing on input data corresponding to the image-processed data stored in the storage unit and cause the storage unit to store image-processed data obtained by the image processing. | 11-13-2014 |
20150015913 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a defragmentation process, the memory area identifying unit | 01-15-2015 |
20150022860 | DATA TRANSFER CONTROL APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD - In order to control transfer to a processing unit of input data containing a plurality of lines stored across a plurality of memory regions including first and second memory regions, a position of a line of target of output data containing a plurality of lines output from the processing unit is specified. A number of lines of input data to be transferred from the first memory region and their addresses are determined, and a number of lines of input data to be transferred from the second memory region and their addresses are determined, based on the specified position of the line of target. Control is performed based on the determination result such that input data for a number of lines may be transferred from the first memory region and input data for a number of lines may be transferred from the second memory region. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022861 | DATA SUPPLYING DEVICE - A data supplying device may be provided with a processor; and an instruction memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the data supplying device to perform: identifying a first type of content data from among content data described in a document file, the first type of content data being content data by which a content to be outputted is changeable in a state where an image represented by the document file is displayed on a display device; storing the identified first type of content data in a data memory; acquiring access information for accessing the first type of content data stored in the data memory; and supplying access data representing an image indicating the access information to a print executing unit in a case where the print executing unit should print an image represented by print data based on the document file. | 01-22-2015 |
20150043038 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus generates first location information about a location of at least a part of data as a target of predetermined processing and second location information about a location of location information corresponding to a part different from the part, and transmits the generated first and second location information to a processing apparatus which executes the predetermined processing for the data. | 02-12-2015 |
20150055183 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT STORES DATA OF PRINT JOB IN MEMORY AREA, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A image forming apparatus capable of performing reservation printing, even when incapable of storing print data in a memory unit due to an insufficient free space, by securing a memory area which is not used by other users. Print data is input from a PC to an MFP so as to be reserved in a memory area of an auxiliary memory of the MFP, and is printed out by the MFP in response to an instruction from a user who has logged in the MFP. The auxiliary memory has a reservation printing area and a reservation printing emergency area for storing print data. If print data of the logged-in user cannot be stored in the reservation printing area due to an insufficient free space, the print data is stored in the reservation printing emergency area in response to an instruction from the logged-in user. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062649 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus determines whether information indicating a creator of environment setting information described in the environment setting information is the same as information indicating a user of an application, and if it is determined that the information indicating a creator of the environment setting information is not the same as the information indicating a user of the application, imports the environment setting information in a state where a path to a folder to be used by the creator included in the environment setting information is unusable. | 03-05-2015 |
20150077801 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit performing image processing in accordance with an image processing parameter; a first control unit storing the image processing parameter, which is to be used by the image processing unit, in association with address information, which is used to store the image processing parameter in the image processing unit, into a first storage unit on a basis of the image processing performed by the image processing unit; and a memory access unit writing the image processing parameter, which is read from the first storage unit, based on the address information in association with the image processing parameter on the basis of the image processing of the image processing unit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077802 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A multifunction peripheral (MFP) for displaying a screen including a list of a part of folders included in a plurality of folders determines to, based on a file stored in a same folder as a folder storing the plurality of folders, display index keys for enabling display of folders corresponding to a specified character out of the plurality of folders (S | 03-19-2015 |
20150092235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SETTING INITIAL DISPLAY SCREEN, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus equipped with a customization function and a resume function, which is capable of enabling a user to select one of these functions and thereby displaying an initial display screen intended by the user. A user is prompted to make a selection as to whether to display a user-customized screen or to display a screen displayed at logout time, as an initial screen to be displayed after start or reactivation of the image forming apparatus. The display of the initial screen after the start or reactivation of the image forming apparatus is controlled based on the selection made by the user. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092236 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATIONS THEREOF - An image processing apparatus includes a processor to perform: acquiring date information determined based on a current date; selecting an icon to be displayed on the display unit, according to the date information, from a plurality of icons that is used to execute image processing; controlling a display unit such that the display unit displays the selected icon; acquiring selection information specifying an icon selected from the icon displayed on the display unit; and controlling a printing execution unit such that the printing execution unit prints an image by executing the image processing associated with the icon specified. In a case where the date information represents a first date, the processor, in the selecting, configured to select a first icon, and in a case where the date information represents a second date, the processor, in the selecting, configured to select a second icon. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092237 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a display unit, a storing unit, and a notification unit. The receiving unit receives a job. The display unit displays the job received by the receiving unit. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit. The notification unit performs, after the receiving unit has received a job and in response to change in attribute information, stored in the storing unit, of the sheet held in the sheet holding unit specified by the job, notification of the change in the attribute information of the sheet held in the sheet holding unit in an identifiable manner, in association with the job displayed on the display unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098113 | SETTING STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A setting storage device, includes: a storage unit that stores setting information and adjustment information to be associated with each other; and a control unit that in case that first setting information is introduced, compares contents in relation to predefined items of first adjustment information associated with the first setting information with corresponding contents of second adjustment information having been stored in the storage unit and, according to a comparison result, controls whether to store the first setting information to be associated with the second adjustment information stored in the storage unit or to store the first setting information and the first adjustment information associated with the first setting information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098114 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER CONTROL METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a monitoring unit, and an arbitration unit. The monitoring unit monitors a data amount in a first transfer buffer of a first image processing unit, and a data amount in a second transfer buffer of a second image processing unit. The arbitration unit arbitrates, so that when the data amount in the first transfer buffer becomes not less than a predetermined first threshold value, the number of times of data transfer from the first transfer buffer to a main memory is increased. Furthermore the arbitration unit arbitrates, so that when the data amount in the second transfer buffer becomes not more than a predetermined second threshold value, the number of times of data transfer from the main memory to the second transfer buffer is increased. | 04-09-2015 |
20150116777 | Electronic Device That Automatically Registers Alternative User Operation - An electronic device includes a log management unit and an assist function managing unit. The log management unit stores job logs containing, in relation to jobs, set content and execution result, and at least one of: required time, or printed sheet count and printed page count. The assist function managing unit: (a) extracts failed-job job logs in which the execution results indicate failure from the log management unit; (b) extracts successful-job job logs, corresponding to the failed-job job logs, in which, for jobs on a document executed immediately after a failed job on the document, the execution results indicate normal termination; and (c) registers, as operation assist functions, alternative user operations in terms of setting operations for successful jobs corresponding to the failed jobs that meet predetermined conditions in terms of the at least one of: required time, or printed sheet count and printed page count. | 04-30-2015 |
20150146259 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a saving type storing section, an image data saving section, and a text data saving section. The saving type storing section is configured to store a saving type for image data of a read original document. The image data saving section is configured to save the image data. The text data saving section is configured to save a text data portion included in the image data. When a saving type indicative of processing to save the text data portion is set as the saving type, the text data portion is converted in the text format and saved to the text data saving section. When a saving type indicative of processing to save the entire image data is set as the saving type, the entire image data is saved to the image data saving section. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294196 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electronic device includes volatile memory, flash memory, and a CPU. The volatile memory includes a first actual data region that records actual data and a first log region that records update information including update data used for updating the actual data. The flash memory includes blocks and undergoes block unit initialization when writing is to be performed thereto. The blocks each include a second actual data region that records actual data and a second log region that records update information written from the first log region. The CPU writes update information corresponding to update data to the first log region when updating actual data using the update data. At a preset specific timing, the CPU collects update information recorded in the first log region, writes the collected update information to the second log regions in accordance with a specific order, and subsequently initializes the first log region. | 10-15-2015 |
20150317550 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus including a memory includes a first conversion method configured to perform conversion processing for converting an image represented by span information in page line sequence into span information in tile sequence, using the memory; a second conversion unit configured to perform conversion processing for converting an image represented by pixel information in page line sequence into pixel information in tile sequence, using the memory; and a control unit configured to control a conversion unit employing a less usage amount of the memory used in a case that a process target image is converted into tiles, of the first conversion unit and the second conversion unit, to perform the conversion processing on the process target image. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324154 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, AND PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - To provide a printing system, printing control device, and printing control program that can optimize the operating rate of a printer. An operation optimization processing part includes a comparison part and an output destination determination part, and performs a process that in order to the optimize the operating status of a printer, before an RIP process is performed, in accordance with a condition determined by the relationship between an RIP processing speed and a printing speed, for each print data, preliminarily determines a raster data output destination for temporarily storing raster data generated by performing the RIP process of the print data. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324668 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MEMORY CHIP FOR GENERATING CHECKOUT VALUE - A method, a system and a memory chip for generating a check value, which can eliminate the defect of time consuming and high power consumption of the existing memory chip for generating check value, are provided according to the present disclosure. The method comprises the following steps: a frequently changing data relating to an imaging cartridge is acquired; an intermediate check data pre-generated based on infrequently changing data is acquired; the frequently changing data and the intermediate check data are calculated through a predetermined algorithm, and thus a check value is obtained. A step of calculating the infrequently changing data relating to the imaging cartridge is omitted according to the present disclosure, and thus the calculation amount for acquiring the check value can be reduced, the calculation efficiency can be improved, the calculation time and the response time of the entire printing and imaging apparatus can be shortened, and the power consumption of the memory chip can be reduced. | 11-12-2015 |
20160048098 | UPDATING A SUPPORTED-SUPPLIES DATABASE OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Example updating a supported-supplies database of an image forming apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes receiving an imaging supply in a printer; accessing an action identifier on the imaging supply; and in response to the action identifier, at least one of updating a database of the printer to include a first supported imaging supply previously not supported by or compatible with the printer, or removing a second supported imaging supply previously supported by or compatible with the printer from the database. | 02-18-2016 |
20160065777 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus having functions installed thereon includes a job input portion that inputs a first job, a job storage that stores the first job, a job output portion that outputs the first job, a memory that allows allocating memory areas to the functions and reallocating the memory areas, a first judgment portion that judges whether or not the memory areas were reallocated after input but before output of the first job, a second judgment portion that judges whether or not output of the first job requires any unavailable function, a third judgment portion that judges whether or not the unavailable function will be available by restricting operations related to a second job and by adjusting the memory areas, and an operation restriction portion restricts operations related to the second job and adjusts the memory areas, wherein the first job is output while restrictions on the operations are effective. | 03-03-2016 |
20160088187 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus includes a determination unit and a selection unit. The determination unit determines whether or not it is necessary to regulate an amount of data in accordance with a condition related to a data storage margin. The selection unit selects data processing for regulating from among plural data processing candidates by comparing amounts of data resulting from the plural data processing candidates with one another in a case where it is necessary to regulate an amount of data. | 03-24-2016 |
20160100065 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming device includes a search processor and a display controller. The search processor searches storage location information corresponding to storage locations storing image data. When multiple storage location information with the same identification information is found by search, the display controller causes a display unit to display representational information collectively representing the multiple storage location information, and causes the display unit to display information related to image data using a different process of displaying information related to image data stored in the multiple locations, according to whether or not attribute information used as supplementary information for identifying storage location information is associated with each of the multiple storage location information corresponding to specified representational information. | 04-07-2016 |
20160127613 | MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A memory control circuit includes a writing unit configured to receive image data that is input and write the image data into a memory; a first reading unit configured to read the image data written in the memory and output the image data to a determination unit that determines a type of image of the image data; and a second reading unit configured to read the image data written in the memory and output the image data to an image processing unit that performs image processing according to a determination result obtained by the determination unit. When the second reading unit is outputting the image data to the image processing unit, the first reading unit outputs image data, which is input subsequently to the input of the image data, to the determination unit. | 05-05-2016 |
20160134778 | SCANNER - A scanner may perform: determining whether a target area within a data storage server is in a first type of storage area or in a second type of storage area, the first type of storage area being a storage area in which uploaded data can be accessed by using whichever of a first and a second access method, and the second type of storage area being a storage area in which uploaded data can be accessed by using the first access method but not the second access method; uploading scan data in the target area in the first type of storage area in a case where it is determined that the target area is in the first type of storage area; and informing the user of impossible designation information in a case where it is determined that the target area is in the second storage area. | 05-12-2016 |
20160139862 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Image processing apparatus and method capable of performing high-speed printing while suppressing an increase of memory size are provided. The image processing apparatus comprises: a page processing unit to perform processes of a plurality of pages in parallel; a load deciding unit to detect a load level in the page processing unit, for each page; and a controlling unit to control the page processing unit depending on a detection result by the load deciding unit, wherein the page processing unit assigns a thread of an edge extraction process to one or more image data in the page to be processed, and synthesizes an edge of each image data extracted by the thread, and the controlling unit comprises a thread priority order designating unit configured to designate priority order of the thread assigned by the page processing unit, depending on a result of the detection by the load deciding unit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147491 | Printing Device, Control Method of a Printing Device, and Printing System - A printing device runs a process that uses resources efficiently and is compatible with configurations having multiple reception units. The printer | 05-26-2016 |
20160165089 | COPYING MACHINE AND PRINTER - A copying machine is configured to execute a first scanning process to san an image on an original sheet and generate image data, which is stored in a storage of the copying machine and an external processing device, a printing process to print the image of the original sheet, a second scanning process to release an image data storing area of the storage, and store the image data in the storage and the external processing device, a transmission process to release the image data storing area of the storage, and transmit the image data from the external processing device to the storage, and a detection process to detect whether a free capacity of the storage becomes less than a particular value. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170688 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | 06-16-2016 |
20160179442 | Apparatus and Method for Processing Image Data | 06-23-2016 |
20160378413 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus that is capable of proposing a user-suitable default value. The image forming apparatus, which is configured to store an operation related default value on a per-user basis as default information, includes a storage part that is configured to store an operation history on a per-user basis as operation history information and a default value determination part that is configured to determine, by referring to the operation history, whether or not an operation conducted by a user reaches a criterion for rewriting the default value and to make a propose to update the default value if the user conducted operation reaches the criterion for rewriting the default value. | 12-29-2016 |
20220137905 | CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A PRINTING SYSTEM IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A varied least recently used (VLRU) caching technique is used to enable print data to be available at a cache of a client for printing, even after an agent performs a deletion of a hash value for the print data at a cache of the agent. The deletion of the print data (cached at the cache of the client) is postponed at the client device via the use of a waiting list, so that the cached print data can be printed at a physical printer of the client, in response to receiving a delayed print job from the agent that specifies the hash value as a result of a deduplication process performed by the agent. | 05-05-2022 |