Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090044104 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING HELP DOCUMENT FOR WORKFLOW, HELP DOCUMENT GENERATING METHOD AND HELP DOCUMENT GENERATING FORM - To provide a user with an easily understandable help document, the MFP capable of executing a plurality of processes includes a process designation accepting portion to accept designation of at least one of the plurality of processes, a workflow generating portion to generate workflow definition data defining the one or more processes accepted, and a help document generating portion to generate a help document corresponding to the generated workflow. The help document generating portion includes a summary page generating portion to generate a summary page having listed thereon process names for identification of the one or more processes defined by the corresponding workflow definition data. | 02-12-2009 |
20090265625 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PREVIEW DISPLAY, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A display controller displays a page selection menu generated by a page-selection-menu generator for selecting pages having a specific attribute based on contents of setting relating to printing in common. As one example, when both-side print setting is made, as a specific attribute based on the contents of the setting relating to the printing, an odd pages and even pages are displayed in a selectable manner among pages included in a preview image | 10-22-2009 |
20090290182 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH PREVIEW DISPLAY FUNCTION, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - On an operation panel, a preview image based on first preview image data generated by a first preview image generator is displayed (first stage), and then, a preview image based on second preview image data generated by a second preview image generator is displayed (second stage). An image reducing unit reduces input image data into an image size appropriate for the preview image to generate third preview image data. When image synthesis processing is set as user setting, an image processing unit changes, in accordance with the user setting, a display aspect of at least a portion of an area on the third preview image data corresponding to an area on the input image data in which another image data (a fixed pattern or the like) is to be synthesized. | 11-26-2009 |
20090310164 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PUBLICIZED INFORMATION AGGREGATING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is provided with a browsing setting table storage portion for storing a keyword specified by a user, an update presence/absence determination portion for retrieving, from information publicized through a server, publicized information that includes updated or newly added contents and that also includes the keyword stored in the browsing setting table storage portion, and a printing control portion for controlling a printing unit to print the publicized information thus retrieved. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310180 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS SETTING OF DEVICE BASED ON INFORMATION ACQUIRED - When a user uses an image processing device, the image processing device accesses a private PC of the user connected to a network to request acquisition of environmental information. A printer driver in the private PC collects various settings (including desktop theme, application settings, and device driver settings) from within the private PC. The settings are transmitted to the image processing device. The image processing device, based on the acquired setting information, changes the panel display, application settings, and others. This simplifies setting of the image processing device. | 12-17-2009 |
20100053658 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAINTENANCE SYSTEM, AND JOB CONTROL METHOD - To reduce downtime due to maintenance of an image processing apparatus as much as possible. | 03-04-2010 |
20100302586 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a communicator that is capable of communicating with a support terminal for operation support about the image forming apparatus; a controller that records video data consisting of data exchanged with the support terminal in a memory and further records voice data consisting of a conversation between a user who operates the image forming apparatus and the support staff, also in the memory, with a connection to the video data; and a player that plays the video and voice data recorded therein, according to an instruction given by the user or another user. | 12-02-2010 |
20110063324 | IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM, IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROJECTION PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image projection system includes a projector to project a projected image onto a drawing surface of a whiteboard, a drawn-image detecting portion to detect a drawn image which is drawn on the drawing surface of the whiteboard while the projector is projecting the projected image, and a modification portion which, in the case where the drawn image is detected, to specify from the projected image which is projected onto the projection surface a part including at least a drawn image part overlapping the detected drawn image, and modify the specified part of the projected image, on the basis of the detected drawn image, so as to emphasize or cancel the drawn image. | 03-17-2011 |
20120137219 | DOCUMENT VIEWING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT DATA - A MFP is a document viewing device for displaying document data divided for each page. The document viewing device includes a processing device which performs a process of generating a viewing history of a document by a user based on a user operation performed for the document currently displayed on a display device; a process evaluating relevance to an object displayed on the display device to extract the page relevant to the object displayed on the display device from the document data; a process of determining based on the viewing history whether the object is checked or unchecked by the user to extract, from the extracted pages, a page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked; and a process of causing the display device to display, together with the displayed object, a shortcut linked to the page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked. | 05-31-2012 |
20130208309 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REMOTE OPERATION APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A remote operation system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an operation input part including a touch panel and a hardware key and a transmission part for transmitting synthesizable area information indicating a synthesizable area in a candidate screen (first screen) of the remote operation screen to the remote operation apparatus. The first screen is a screen including a touch panel area and a hardware key area, and the synthesizable area is defined in the synthesizable area information as an area not including a hardware key image. The remote operation apparatus generates a second screen by synthesizing an additional image to be added to the first screen into the synthesizable area of the first screen on the basis of the synthesizable area information and displays the second screen on the display part as the remote operation screen. | 08-15-2013 |
20140340704 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, STARTUP CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH STARTUP CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a main processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express, a startup control portion to control startup of the main processing portion, and a connection portion connectable with an option board having a sub processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express. The startup control portion includes a detection portion to detect the option board connected to the connection portion, an acquisition portion to acquire ability information about the option board at a stage before the main processing portion starts up, when the option board is detected, a selection portion to select one of the main processing portion and the sub processing portion, based on the acquired ability information, and a switch portion to start one selected from the main processing portion and the sub processing portion as a root complex. | 11-20-2014 |