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20090210785 | Device, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Page Description Language Processing - There is provided a page description language processing device, comprising: a data input unit to input data described in a page description language; a judgment unit to read a command from the data and to judge whether the command should be converted into a common intermediate code; an intermediate code storage unit; a controller to store a common intermediate command in the intermediate code storage unit if the judgment unit judges that the command should be converted in the common intermediate command, and to store a special intermediate command the intermediate code storage unit if the judgment judges that the command should not be converted into the common command; and an intermediate code execution unit configured to execute a common module for the common intermediate command, and to execute a special module for the special intermediate command. | 08-20-2009 |
20090244610 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS - An image output apparatus may be configured to create one piece of image data in a bit-mapped format from PDL data described by a page description language, and output a plurality of pieces of image data as one page of an output image. The image output apparatus may input data files. The data files may include at least two data files, one of which may be described by a first page description language and the other of which may be described by a second page description language. The image output apparatus may determine, for each of the data files, with respect to at least one page of PDL data included in the data file, a position in which one piece of image data corresponding to the PDL data is to be disposed within the output image. The image output apparatus may create, for each of the data files, with respect to at least one page of PDL data included in the data file, one piece of intermediate language data described by an intermediate language from the PDL data. The image output apparatus may create, for each piece of the intermediate language data, one piece of image data from the piece of intermediate language data, and write the one piece of image data in a position within a memory corresponding to the determined position with respect to the original PDL data of the one piece of image data. The image output apparatus may output the plurality of pieces of image data as one page of the output image in accordance with the stored contents of the memory. | 10-01-2009 |
20090290176 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - An image generating device for generating a gradation in which the color value changes from a center of the gradation through multiple areas includes an acquisition unit that acquires parameters representing a gradation pattern including the center and shape of the gradation, a symmetry judgment unit that judges whether the gradation symmetry is satisfied (condition that the shape has line symmetry or point symmetry and the gradation center is on a line symmetry axis or at the center of point symmetry), an area determination unit that determines a partial area usable for generating a whole gradation using the gradation symmetry if the gradation symmetry is judged to be satisfied, a drawing unit that draws the gradation in the partial area based on the parameters, and a gradation development unit that develops the drawn gradation into the whole gradation using the gradation symmetry. | 11-26-2009 |
20110075219 | PRINTING DEVICE - The printing device includes an original data acquiring unit, a first determining unit, a first data generating unit, and a printing unit. The original data acquiring unit is configured to acquire original data representing at least two related objects on a worksheet. The first determining unit is configured to determine whether the at least two related objects are capable of being included in one page. The first data generating unit is configured to generate first data based on the original data. The first data generating unit generates the first data such that the at least two related objects are included in the one page when the first determining unit determines that the at least two related objects are capable of being included in the one page. The printing unit prints an image based on the first data. | 03-31-2011 |
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 |
20120033262 | CONTROLLING DEVICE MOUNTED ON PORTABLE TYPE TERMINAL DEVICE - A portable type terminal device may switch between a first state in which a specific image is shown in a display such that an up-down direction of the specific image is along a first direction, and a second state in which the specific image is shown in the display such that the up-down direction of the specific image is along a second direction. A controlling device mounted on the portable type terminal device may create print data for causing a printer to perform a first type of a print in both of a first case where a print of the specific image is instructed in the first state and a second case where the print of the specific image is instructed in the second state. In the first type of the print, the left-right direction of the specific image may be along a short side of a print medium. | 02-09-2012 |
20120224190 | Data Generating Apparatus, and Print Apparatus - Text data corresponding to at least a part of a text contained in the file or picture data corresponding to at least a part of a picture contained in the file is extracted. Thumbnail data to be used as an index thumbnail using the extracted text data or the extracted picture data is generated. An output size of the thumbnail is set by adjusting the output size according to the characteristics of the file from which each thumbnail data is extracted. For each file, an index data is generated by using the thumbnail data of the set output size. The generated index data can be displayed or printed. | 09-06-2012 |
20120243041 | TERMINAL DEVICES SELECTIVELY USING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, METHODS OF CONTROLLING SUCH TERMINAL DEVICES, AND MEDIA STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUCH TERMINAL DEVICES - Non-transitory, computer-readable storage media, terminal devices, and methods are disclosed herein. The terminal device includes a processor and communicates selectively using one of many wireless communication systems comprising a first and second wireless communication system. The computer-readable media store computer-readable instructions therein. The instructions instruct the processor to generate first specific image data representing a first image when the first wireless communication system is specified. The instructions instruct the processor to store the first specific image data when the terminal device receives a first print instruction to print the first image while the first wireless communication system is specified. The instructions instruct the processor to provide first print data, based on the stored first specific image data, to the printing device when the wireless communication setting is changed from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system after storing the first specific image data. | 09-27-2012 |
20130293906 | PRINTING INDEX IMAGES AND FILE INFORMATION TOGETHER - An image forming apparatus is provided with a data retrieving unit that retrieves index image data and associating file information corresponding files from a recording medium. The index image data and associating tile information are allocated to a plurality of arrangement sections. The index image data and associating file information may be printed on a printing sheet in accordance with a predetermined layout. A judging unit is provided to judge whether the associating file information is less than or equal to a predetermined length, The associating file information which is longer than the predetermined length is normally printed incompletely so as to he printed within the arrangement section. A layout modifying unit is provided to modify the predetermined layout for the arrangement section if the associating file information is longer than the predetermined length so that the associating file information is printed completely on the printing sheet. | 11-07-2013 |
20140063547 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONNECTABLE TO SERVER VIA NETWORK - An image processing apparatus implements: receiving a first command for execution of an image processing function; supplying a server with a conversion command if the conversion process should not be executed on the image processing apparatus; acquiring time data indicative of a conversion period of time that the server requires to execute the conversion process; receiving, within the conversion period of time, a second command for execution of an image processing function; starting execution of the second process within the conversion period of time if it is determined that the second process can be completed within the conversion period of time, and failing to start execution of the second process within the conversion period of time if it is determined that the second process cannot be completed within the conversion period of time; acquiring converted data from the server; and executing a prescribed process using the converted data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140149394 | SERVER - A server provides converted data to an external apparatus in response to plural request commands. The converted data is generated by converting target data and is divided to plural partial data to be stored in an external storage device. The server acquires one or more untransmitted partial data as a portion of the plural partial data from the external storage device each time when one request command is received, and writes the acquired one or more untransmitted partial data in an internal storage device of the server. The server transmits at least a portion of the one or more untransmitted partial data written in the internal storage device, to the external apparatus, each time when one request command of the plurality of request commands is received. | 05-29-2014 |
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20080231896 | Printing device, and printing method and computer readable medium therefor - A printing device includes a data acquiring unit configured to acquire a numerical number of image files to be printed, an input accepting unit configured to accept an external input for specifying a numerical number of papers to be printed, a printing pattern determining unit configured to determine a numerical number, layout, and size of images to be printed on each paper based on the numerical number of image files that is acquired by the data acquiring unit and the numerical number of papers that is specified through the input accepting unit, and a printing unit configured to perform a printing operation based on the numerical number, layout, and size of images to be printed on each paper that are determined by the printing pattern determining unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080266589 | Image forming device - An image forming device includes a printing unit configured to print images on a recording sheet, a page number acquiring unit configured to acquire a common page number which is common among a plurality of files subject to be printed, a page extracting unit configured to extract a page of image from page data contained in each of the plurality of files based on the common page number acquired by the page number acquiring unit, and a print control unit configured to control the printing unit to print a plurality of images respectively extracted from the plurality of files, which are extracted by the page extracting unit, on a page of a recording sheet. | 10-30-2008 |
20090086249 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM - An image formation device capable of forming a plurality of reduced images on an output medium comprises an input data acquisition unit which acquires input data, a recognizability judgment unit which judges whether each reduced image to be formed corresponding to each piece of input data acquired by the input data acquisition unit is recognizable to a user or not based on the input data and size of the reduced image to be formed, and a reduced image formation unit which forms the reduced images that are judged to be recognizable by the recognizability judgment unit on the output medium while prohibiting the formation of the reduced images that are judged to be unrecognizable by the recognizability judgment unit. | 04-02-2009 |
20120194829 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM - An image formation device capable of forming a plurality of reduced images on an output medium comprises an input data acquisition unit which acquires input data, a recognizability judgment unit which judges whether each reduced image to be formed corresponding to each piece of input data acquired by the input data acquisition unit is recognizable to a user or not based on the input data and size of the reduced image to be formed, and a reduced image formation unit which forms the reduced images that are judged to be recognizable by the recognizability judgment unit on the output medium while prohibiting the formation of the reduced images that are judged to be unrecognizable by the recognizability judgment unit. | 08-02-2012 |