Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100091322 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and image forming method therefor, the image forming apparatus including: a communication interface to receive an XML paper specification (XPS) file; an XPS emulator unit to replace redundancy of the received XPS file with a parsing object and to render the XPS file in which the redundancy has been replaced; and a controller to output the rendered XPS file. Accordingly, resources used to output the XPS file are reduced. | 04-15-2010 |
20110051175 | DLNA device and image forming method thereof - A DLNA device includes a communication interface to receive at least one of content and content information through the Internet or receive at least one of content and content information which are stored in a device within the DLNA network, a storage unit to store the received content and content information, a user interface to display the content based on the content information and receive a printing command for the content from a user, a printing job generation unit to generate printing data for the content, based on the content information and the printing command from the user, and a controller to control the communication interface such that the generated printing data is printed by the image forming apparatus. | 03-03-2011 |
20110134463 | Control point, image forming apparatus, and printing control method - A control point including a user interface through which at least one file for printing is selected, a communication interface which searches for at least one image forming apparatus using DLNA, a DLNA stack unit which receives device information corresponding to the searched at least one image forming apparatus, an image processor which converts the file for printing to correspond to the image forming apparatus using the device information, a printing job generator which generates printing data regarding the converted file for printing, and a controller which controls the communication interface to transmit the generated printing data to the image forming apparatus. | 06-09-2011 |
20110216353 | Control point and method for controlling print - A control point including a user interface to select an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job among image forming apparatuses connected using a digital living network alliance, a storage unit to store a lookup table which records at least one of information of printing data formats supportable by the selected image forming apparatus and printing time information, a format selector to select a printing data format based on the lookup table, a driver unit to generate printing data according to the selected printing data format, and a communication unit to transmit the generated printing data to the selected image forming apparatus. | 09-08-2011 |
20110304860 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING E-BOOK CONTENTS - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a function unit which performs a function of the image forming apparatus, a user interface which receives a selection of job data processed by the function unit and a selection of a layout for the job data, a contents production unit which produces electronic book (e-book) contents for the selected job data based on the selected layout, and a communication interface which transmits the produced e-book contents to an external device. | 12-15-2011 |
20120044523 | Image forming system for printing contents of widget application executed in terminal - An image forming system to print contents of a widget application executed in a terminal, including: the terminal to display a widget screen by executing the widget application, to display content of which a preview is requested in the displayed widget screen, and to request printing of the displayed content; a widget server to receive raw data of the content from the outside and to process the received raw data to preview data or print data; and an image forming device to print the content in response to a print request of the content. | 02-23-2012 |
20120218585 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND SYSTEM USING XHTML-PRINT DATA - An image forming method using extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML)-print data, including receiving registration information about an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus, generating XHTML-Print data from print data using the registration information of the information forming apparatus, transmitting the XHTML-Print data to the image forming apparatus, and printing the XHTML-Print data. | 08-30-2012 |
20130050770 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD of SCANNING - An image scanning apparatus is provided. The image scanning apparatus includes a DLNA apparatus search unit to search at least one DLNA apparatus connectible to the image scanning apparatus, a user interface to select at least one of the searched DLNA apparatus, a communication interface to obtain apparatus information from the selected DLNA apparatus, a search unit to search a scan option based on the obtained apparatus information, a scan unit to generate a scan image by scanning a document according to the searched scan option, and a DLNA stack unit to transmit the generated scan image to the selected DLNA apparatus. | 02-28-2013 |
20140126011 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING MENU IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus to support a near field communication (NFC) function receives address book information stored in a user terminal by tagging the user terminal, and generates a quick menu in which image forming functions related to the received address book information are listed and displays the quick menu on a user interface unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140168687 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION OF NFC DEVICE THEREOF - An image forming apparatus supporting a near field communication (NFC) function and a method of performing authentication of an NFC device in the image forming apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving identification information by tagging an NFC device and determining whether the NFC device is authenticated or not, by using the received identification information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140185088 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS SUPPORTING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) FUNCTION AND METHOD OF SETTING AN IMAGE JOB USING NFC DEVICE - An image forming apparatus supporting a near field communication (NFC) function and a method of performing setting an image job by using an NFC device. The method includes tagging an NFC device to receive setting information stored in the NFC device and performing an image job based on the received setting information. | 07-03-2014 |
20150029532 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) DEVICE SUPPORTING NFC FUNCTION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION THEREOF CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS - An image forming apparatus for authenticating a near field communication (NFC) device, which receives information about an application being executed on an NFC device when the NFC device is tagged, determines an authentication method based on the received information, receives and authenticates a log in information corresponding to the determined authentication method from the NFC device, and allows the use of the image forming apparatus based on a result of authentication. | 01-29-2015 |