Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090083651 | METHOD TO MANAGE DRIVER PROGRAM OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method to manage a driver program includes starting an installation of a driver program of an image forming apparatus, setting a number of tasks to be performed using the driver program, and installing the driver program. The method further includes comparing the set number of tasks with a number of tasks actually completed, and uninstalling the driver program if the number of tasks actually completed reaches the set number of tasks. Accordingly, a driver program of an image forming apparatus can be more efficiently managed. | 03-26-2009 |
20090174889 | METHOD TO PREVENT COUNTERFEIT AND MULTI-FUNCTION PRINTER USING THE SAME METHOD - A method of preventing counterfeiting an object document in a multi-function printer, the method includes discriminating the document, determining whether a job on the discriminated document is prohibited, and printing the document of which front and back sides are different in a duplex-printing start position in the case that the job on the document is prohibited. | 07-09-2009 |
20090268241 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PRINT JOB AND A TERMINAL DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of controlling a print job using a universal print driver of a terminal device connectable to a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The method can include selecting one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, selecting pre-stored printing options of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, determining whether the pre-stored printing options are available on the image forming apparatus for which the universal print driver is selected, and displaying that the pre-stored printing option is unavailable, if at least one of the pre-stored printing options is unavailable. Therefore, a user can easily recognize information regarding unavailable pre-stored printing options. | 10-29-2009 |
20090296115 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM TO PROCESS ADDITIONAL DATA OF PRINTING JOB - A method, apparatus, and image forming system to process additional information in a printing task. The method includes receiving a printing task which includes data to be printed, determining whether the received printing task includes additional information, and, if the printing task includes additional information, printing out the data to be printed and the additional information after changing color of the data to be printed or the additional information according to a printing mode. Thus, unnecessary driving of a driving unit of a color image forming device due to additional information added to a printing task can be prevented. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296134 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING JOB - A method of controlling a printing job of an image forming apparatus having an image forming unit. The method of controlling a printing job includes transforming scanned data into printable data, and determining a time to start driving the image forming unit according to the type of data scanned, starting driving the image forming unit at the determined start time, and printing the scanned data transformed into printable data. The time required to perform a printing job is thereby reduced, and scanned data can be output normally. | 12-03-2009 |
20100002253 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HOST CLIENT, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND MANAGING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus, a host client, an image forming system and a managing method thereof are provided. The managing method of an image forming system which includes an image forming apparatus, and a host client which is connected to the image forming apparatus, includes determining whether a predetermined event of the image forming apparatus happens or not, informing at least one host client whether to perform an uninstalling of a printer driver which corresponds to the image forming apparatus or not if the predetermined event happens, selecting the uninstalling of the printer driver depending on the informing, and deleting the printer driver of the host client depending on the selecting. Thus, the present general inventive concept provides an image forming apparatus, a host client, an image forming system and a managing method thereof efficiently managing a control program corresponding to the image forming apparatus. | 01-07-2010 |
20110055706 | Control device, control point, and method for controlling frendly name priority order - A control device is provided. The control device includes a storage unit to store a predetermined first prefix, a user interface unit to receive the first friendly name corresponding to the control device, a generation unit to generate the second friendly name using the input first friendly name and the first prefix pre-stored in the control device, a stack unit to generate a device description using the generated second friendly name, and a communication interface unit to transmit the generated device description to the control point. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055736 | Image forming apparatus, method of providing UI user interface contents thereof, and host apparatus - An image forming apparatus, according to an exemplary embodiment, is provided that includes an interface unit to interface at least one host apparatus with the image forming apparatus, a web server unit to generate UI contents displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) using a web-based language and store the generated UI contents, and a first display unit to display the stored UI contents using a web browser. Accordingly, the image forming apparatus, according to an exemplary embodiment, may generate UI contents of the UI window of the image forming apparatus using a web-based language, generate a screen which is the same as the screen displayed on the UI of the image forming apparatus, and provide the screen to a host apparatus. Thus, user convenience may be improved. | 03-03-2011 |
20110069341 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A method to control a print control device having a universal printer driver is provided. The present method comprises searching a plurality of image forming apparatuses, displaying the first list including the searched image forming apparatuses, if the first image forming apparatus is selected from the first list, displaying a driver user interface (UI) corresponding to the selected first image forming apparatus, displaying the second list including at least one image forming apparatus while the driver UI is maintained, and if the second image forming apparatus is selected from the second list, displaying a driver UI corresponding to the selected second image forming apparatus. Accordingly, a user may use the universal printer driver more conveniently. | 03-24-2011 |
20110080608 | Image forming apparatus and job performing method - A job performing method of an image forming apparatus which includes a touch screen making a handwriting input available, the method including displaying a handwriting input window in a part of an initial screen displayed on the touch screen and making a user's handwriting input available; inputting a handwriting by the user in the displayed handwriting input window; comparing the input handwriting with a prestored job; and performing the prestored job by the image forming apparatus according to the comparison result. With this, the image forming apparatus provides the shortcut of a function frequently used by a user in an initial screen and enables a user to easily select and perform a particular function or a job. | 04-07-2011 |
20110084925 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO DISPLAY ICONS REPRESENTING FUNCTIONS, AND ICON DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An icon display method of an image forming apparatus is provided which includes receiving an input regarding whether to change a display of an icon representing a function supported by the image forming apparatus, receiving a selection of at least one icon to be changed in display, from among a plurality of icons displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI), receiving an input of modification attributes for the at least one selected icon, storing the received modification attributes, and displaying the at least one selected icon on the GUI, and moving the at least one selected icon in the GUI according to the stored modification attributes. Therefore, it is possible to promote user conveniences. | 04-14-2011 |
20110085198 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and a document management method thereof. A document management method of an image forming apparatus which includes an image scanner to scan a document and generate a scanned image, the method includes generating the scanned image by scanning a document including a bar code, determining whether to perform an optical character recognition (OCR) on the scanned image by using bar code information of the generated scanned image, extracting character information of the document by performing the OCR with respect to the scanned image according to the determination result, and setting a file name by using at least one of the bar code information and the extracted character information and storing the scanned image. The apparatus and method set a file name of a scanned document to identify the document without an additional input. | 04-14-2011 |
20120081751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO UPGRADE DRIVER OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method and apparatus to upgrade a driver of an image forming apparatus. The method includes accessing a website having a website driver program useable by the image forming apparatus, converting a class mode of the image forming apparatus from an original class mode to a predetermined class mode that is different from the original class mode, comparing a driver program stored in the image forming apparatus with the website driver program on the website, and downloading the website driver program from the website and storing the website driver program in the image forming apparatus when the website driver program is a later version than the stored driver program. | 04-05-2012 |
20140073252 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREFOR - An information providing method using a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes placing the mobile terminal within a communication range of a sensor based Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device previously registered in the mobile terminal, receiving identification information and sensing information detected by the sensor based BLE device from the sensor based BLE device, extracting notification information corresponding to the received identification information of the sensor based BLE device, comparing a previously set reference sensing information included in the extracted notification information and the received sensing information, and outputting a notification message included in the notification information based on the comparison of the previously set reference sensing information and the received sensing information. | 03-13-2014 |
20140154986 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREFOR - An information providing method using a mobile terminal is provided. The information providing method includes placing the mobile terminal within a communication range of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device previously registered in the mobile terminal, receiving identification information from the BLE device, extracting previously set notification information corresponding to the received identification information of the BLE device, and outputting a notification message to the mobile terminal based on the extracted previously set notification information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154987 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNCTION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of controlling a function of a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes placing the mobile terminal within a communication range of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device previously registered in the mobile terminal, receiving identification information of the BLE device from the BLE device, extracting function information corresponding to the received identification information of the BLE device, and performing a previously set function corresponding to the extracted function information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140155031 | METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR CONTROLLING SCREEN LOCK - A method of controlling screen lock and a mobile terminal employing the same is provided. The mobile device includes a User Interface (UI) for setting a screen unlock mode using a wireless device other than the mobile terminal and stores IDentifier (ID) information of the wireless device designated by the UI corresponding to the screen unlock mode. The mobile terminal is capable of detecting a wireless device. After the ID information of the wireless device is stored, if the wireless device is detected by the mobile terminal and ID information of the detected wireless device is identical to the stored ID information, the mobile terminal controls not to display an unlock requesting screen when the display unit of the mobile terminal is turned on. | 06-05-2014 |
20140157135 | METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR CONTROLLING BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY DEVICE - A method of controlling, by using a mobile terminal, at least one Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device is provided. The method includes searching for at least one BLE device, displaying a BLE device list, including the at least one searched for BLE device, on a display unit of the mobile terminal, receiving an input of selection of a BLE device from the BLE device list, receiving an input of user added information from a user regarding the selected BLE device, and mapping and storing property information and the user added information regarding the selected BLE device. | 06-05-2014 |
20140210740 | PORTABLE APPARATUS HAVING PLURALITY OF TOUCH SCREENS AND SOUND OUTPUT METHOD THEREOF - A portable apparatus having a plurality of touch screens and a plurality of speakers outputs sounds in the plurality of speakers according to an output mode of a plurality of output modes determined according to an input angle between the plurality of touch screens and attributes of a plurality of applications executed in the plurality of touch screens, and provides a user haptic feedback corresponding to the sound output. | 07-31-2014 |
20140342670 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A communication method used by a first device that communicates with a second device is provided. The method includes detecting an occurrence of a predetermined event related to a device scan, scanning the second device that provides identifier information and capability information, establishing a first communication link with the scanned second device by using a first communication method, determining a second communication method for communicating data with the second device via the first communication link, and establishing a second communication link with the second device by using the determined second communication method. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342671 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION UNIT VIA MAGNETIC SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A method of controlling a communication unit of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: obtaining magnetic field information via a magnetic sensor; comparing the obtained magnetic field information with reference magnetic field information; and switching the communication unit in an inactive state to an active state based on a result of the comparing, wherein the communication unit is capable of communicating with an external device in the active state. | 11-20-2014 |
20150062183 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING SCREEN MAGNIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of adjusting a screen magnification of an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a Dots Per Inch (DPI) setting screen in order to adjust a screen magnification of an object that is to be displayed on a display unit of the electronic device, receiving information about changed DPI through the DPI setting screen, calculating a screen magnification using the changed DPI and a preset Device-Independent Pixel (DIP), changing a size of the object to correspond to the calculated screen magnification, and displaying the object according to the changed size. | 03-05-2015 |