Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
715274000 | Print preview | 72 |
20080244392 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH THE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - In case of transmitting a document file such as a PDF file to a printer without converting it into print data, a PC extracts from the document file to be printed information to be accessed when starting an analysis of the document file and transmits the information to the printer. The PC extracts a specified data from the document file and transmits it to the printer each time when the specified data is requested by the printer. | 10-02-2008 |
20080301549 | Production environment CRM information gathering system for VI applications - A system and method for gathering CRM information in a variable imaging application utilize keywords which are associated with each image of a number of digital images. A variable imaging job stream is generated containing one or more of the digital images. Keyword metadata may also be inserted into the variable imaging job stream, and the variable imaging job stream is received by a VI production system. The variable imaging job stream is processed by the VI production system, thereby identifying the keywords previously associated with the contained images, and also extracting the inserted keyword metadata. A CRM output is generated containing the identified keywords and the extracted keyword metadata. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301550 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE - An image-processing device includes a first memory, a determining unit, a creating unit, and an outputting unit. The first memory stores a first file and a second file. The first file includes first printing data and first additional information. The second file includes second printing data second additional information. The determining unit determines whether or not the first file is a distinguishable file. The distinguishable file is distinguishable from the second file based on the first additional information and the second additional information. The creating unit creates index data based on determination made by the determining unit. The index data includes first indicative data corresponding to the first file and second indicative data corresponding to the second file. The outputting unit outputs index image based on the index data. | 12-04-2008 |
20080313537 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A method is described for displaying a preview image of a document in which a plurality of constituents is defined. The includes setting an authority for each user with respect to each constituent; displaying on a display device a content of at least one constituent as a preview image; designating a user for whom the preview image is displayed from among users whose authority is set; determining whether the designated user has an authority to display the content of the at least one constituent; and restricting display of a first portion of the content corresponding to each constituent for which the user is determined to have no authority and displaying a second portion of the content corresponding to each constituent for which the user is determined to have the authority. A document management apparatus for implementing the method is described which may be implemented, for example, using a computer. | 12-18-2008 |
20090006952 | Computer-Readable Record Medium Storing Printer Driver Program, and Print Data Generating Device - There is provided a computer-readable record medium storing computer-readable instructions that cause a computer to execute a developing step of developing slide data representing transitions of display states into multiple pieces of display data each of which represents each display state corresponding to each transition and a print data generating step of generating print data to be used for printing based on the multiple pieces of display data corresponding to transitions obtained by the developing step. | 01-01-2009 |
20090024919 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO SET ADDITIONAL EMULATION FUNCTIONS AND AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus to set additional emulation functions includes a parsing unit to parse received print data and determine whether setting additional one or more emulation functions is necessary, and a control unit to provide a user interface (UI) to select the additional one or more emulation functions if a determination is made that setting the additional one or more emulation functions is necessary. Therefore, the user can set additional emulation functions necessary to print data using the UI with ease without checking and individually setting the additional emulation functions, and can set additional emulation functions according to personal needs, and thus user convenience is improved. | 01-22-2009 |
20090037812 | PRINT SERVER, PREVIEW DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A disclosed print server includes a preview request receiving unit configured to receive a preview request; a preview request analysis unit configured to analyze the received preview request and thereby to extract request information from the preview request; a print data obtaining unit configured to obtain print data specified in the request information extracted from the preview request; and a preview data generating unit configured to generate preview data from the obtained print data according to a print option specified in the request information extracted from the preview request. | 02-05-2009 |
20090077465 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT LOCATION INDICATION AND NAVIGATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - While a user is viewing in a first display area a portion of an electronic document intended to be printed to produce a printed product, presenting to the user in a second display area a representation of the physical outline of the printed product and an indicator that indicates to the user the size and location of the electronic document portion relative to the printed product. When the user positions a cursor in the second display area, a second indicator image, visually distinctive from the first indicator image, is displayed. The user can position the second indicator at a desired location relative to the representation and request that the portion of the electronic document at that second indicator location be displayed in the first display area. | 03-19-2009 |
20090164894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING OUTPUT IMAGE INCLUDING IMAGE PROCESSING INFORMATION AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Apparatus, method and program product set output characteristics of at least one device of a multifunction image processing system by displaying an initial output image for setting the output image on the display screen; displaying an output setting menu | 06-25-2009 |
20090187821 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING FILE LIST THEREIN - The image forming apparatus includes a display part on which a first and second list of a file, which are to be printed, is displayed and a controller which controls a display of the first list of a file which corresponds to a predetermined condition simultaneously with a display of the second list of a file which does not correspond to the predetermined condition, the second list displayed on the display part by a different display method than the first list. | 07-23-2009 |
20090193336 | METHOD FOR PRINTING WEB PAGES INCLUDED ADVERTISEMENT - A method for printing a web page with an advertisement is provided. When a web user wants to print a specific web page of a web site, a web printing exclusive viewer operates and then the specific web page is automatically adjusted to be fit into a printing area of a web browser. Then, the web page with an advertisement related to the contents of a current web page, provided from the web server, is printed, and the web server automatically counts a page view while printing the web page, such that an accurate total page view count value can be obtained. | 07-30-2009 |
20090217161 | Apparatus system and method of print processing - An apparatus, system, and method of print processing are provided, each capable of generating an image according to print settings information using a primary user interface device and an added user interface device. The added user interface device generates an added image when a current condition specified by current processing status information satisfies an image generation condition, and sends the added image to the primary user interface device. | 08-27-2009 |
20090241024 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus including a preview object unit configured to generate a preview document based on document data stored in a preview print queue. The preview object unit displays the preview document on a screen, and stores the preview document in a print command generation print queue. The information processing apparatus also includes a print command generation object unit configured to generate a print command based on the preview document stored in the print command generation print queue. | 09-24-2009 |
20090249201 | PREVIEW DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD TO GENERATE PREVIEW DATA, AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A preview data generating apparatus to generate preview data, which is used to display a preview image representing an image to be printed on a recording medium, in reflection of a color of the recording medium, is provided. The preview data generating apparatus includes a base color input unit to input a base color being the color of the recording medium, a print data input unit to input print data in a printable format, which is used to print the image, a data conversion unit to convert the print data into a displayable format suitable for a display device, and a base color incorporated data generating unit to generate the preview data representing the image to be printed by incorporating the displayable-formatted data and the base color. | 10-01-2009 |
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 |
20090265626 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY - A print preview image of structured document data including link information is generated and displayed in a display unit, and location information indicating a position of a linked area in the print preview image is generated. The linked area corresponds to the link information included in the structured document data. If it is determined that a user specifies a linked area in the print preview image, linked data indicated by the link information corresponding to the linked area is acquired and the acquired linked data is displayed. This allows the user to refer to information about the linked data without clearing a print preview mode to switch the display mode to a browsing mode. | 10-22-2009 |
20090319890 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH DOWNLOADS DATA VIA NETWORK, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In order to facilitate processing on page data written in a markup language, an MFP includes an operation control portion to accept a user operation, a display control portion to display data, a data acquiring portion to acquire a Web page, a browsing portion to cause the display control portion to display Web page, an analyzing portion to analyze the acquired Web page, to extract an operation to be performed on the acquired Web page, an assigning portion to assign at least one operation to at least one of a plurality of keys based on a result of the analysis, and an operation display adding portion to cause the display control portion to display at least one set of key identification information for identifying the key to which an operation is assigned and operation identification information for identifying the operation which is assigned to the key. | 12-24-2009 |
20100023856 | Image Forming Apparatus - In a case where a display unit displays a setting screen having a first display area to display a draft graphical image in accordance with draft setting and a second display area to display a finished graphical image in accordance with sheet setting, and a user designates a position to be stapled, a staple region mark is superimposed and displayed on a region corresponding to the position to be stapled in the draft graphical image in accordance with the draft setting, and a staple position mark is superimposed and displayed on a position corresponding to the position to be stapled in the finished graphical image in accordance with the sheet setting. | 01-28-2010 |
20100058180 | Display control device, image forming apparatus, method for controlling display device, and storage medium - A display control device controls an image display device capable of displaying a preview of an output image that is to be subjected to an output process, before the output image is subjected to the output process. The display control device refers to a storage section in which specific information specifying an image process which a user cannot recognize from a previewed output image is stored, and selects an image process specified by the specific information out of image processes to be carried out on the output image. Further, the display control device causes the image display device to display a setting confirmation image showing a content of the selected image process. This allows a user to correctly understand the content of an image process to be carried out on the output image and the image quality of the output image subjected to the output process. | 03-04-2010 |
20100064211 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAMS - Defect-free printing is achieved by previewing on a display prior to printing, device functions and print specifications. Preview of double-sided faces is concurrently provided when double-sided printing is specified. Display is performed by generation of data which allows print preview that reflects consideration of device information and document data. Data is generated for perspective-reverse-face preview when page-specification information is set for double-sided faces. | 03-11-2010 |
20100077301 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REVIEW - There is provided a computer-executable method for ordering documents for review in response to an electronic discovery request. The method involves determining, by a processor, one or more metrics of the documents, the one or more metrics indicating at least one of privilege and responsiveness of the documents. The method also involves estimating a relevancy of the documents according to the metrics. The method also involves ordering the documents from most relevant to least relevant according to the relevancy, receiving relevance feedback from a first document reviewer, updating the order according to the relevance feedback, and sending a first subset of the updated ordered documents to a second document reviewer for review. | 03-25-2010 |
20100088594 | THUMBNAIL DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A thumbnail display method is provided, which includes receiving a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file, receiving a preview command for the selected XPS file, analyzing a structure of the XPS file, and displaying thumbnail information regarding a plurality of thumbnails contained in the XPS file according to the analyzed structure. Therefore, it is possible for a user to preview various thumbnails contained in an XPS file. | 04-08-2010 |
20100107064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus having a preview function and an original paper size automatic detection function, capable of displaying a preview of original image data immediately next a detected original paper size has been switched with a simple operation. On receipt of an operation of a next skip button by a user, a preview image display control portion refers to a paper size recording table and displays a preview of image data of a top page in the group (unit) next to the group in which the preview of the image data of the top page is currently displayed, the group being different in a paper size from the other group. | 04-29-2010 |
20100107065 | PRINTER DRIVER PROGRAM, PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A storage medium has a printer driver program recorded thereon causing a computer to execute functions including a category-based UI information managing function that manages UI information on a display of a user interface to set a print condition, for every category, to which an application program of a print instruction source belongs, a print condition display control function that displays the user interface based on the UI information corresponding to the category, to which the application program of the print instruction source belongs, when printing is instructed, and a UI information editing function that edits the UI information to be managed for every category. | 04-29-2010 |
20100162106 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING PREVIEW IMAGE - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a whole preview image generating unit that generates a whole preview image, the whole preview image being a print preview image of the entirety of each page, a display unit, a whole preview image display control unit that controls displaying the whole preview image, a divided preview image generating unit that generates divided preview images, the divided preview images being made by dividing the print preview image of each page by a dividing number, a divided preview image enlarging unit that enlarges each of the divided preview images at higher magnification than a display magnification of the whole preview image and generates enlarged divided preview images, and a divided preview image display control unit that controls displaying the enlarged divided preview images. | 06-24-2010 |
20100192061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTELY VIEWING PAGE LAYOUTS - A system and methods for remotely viewing a dynamically generated page layout is described. The page layout can represent a reader ordering of pages defined as part of a print production job. Alternatively, the page layout can represent an arrangement of pages based on information defined as part of a print production job. | 07-29-2010 |
20100218093 | Control apparatus - A control apparatus of the present invention is a control apparatus (i) which controls an image output apparatus that executes a job of outputting an image and a process of displaying a preview of the image on a display section, (ii) which is capable of causing the job to enter a hold state and releasing the job from the hold state, and (iii) which causes the image output apparatus to execute a job that is not in the hold state, in priority to a job in the hold state. The control apparatus includes a job controlling section which selects a control process from a first control process of causing the image output apparatus to execute a job corresponding to a preview displayed on the display section and a second control process of causing the job corresponding to the preview displayed on the display section to enter the hold state, and which performs the selected control process when no operation is performed to the image output apparatus for a predetermined time while the preview is being displayed. This can restrain a decrease in efficiency of an image output apparatus capable of displaying a preview. | 08-26-2010 |
20100251111 | PRINTING SIMULATION SYSTEM AND PRINTING SIMULATION METHOD AS WELL AS PRINTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The invention relates to a printing simulation system and a printing simulation method as well as a printing management system. The printing simulation system includes a display controlling apparatus for simulation-displaying the picture of a result where a picture obtained from the picture data to be printed is printed under a printing condition obtained from printing condition data on a monitor screen. A displaying mode which is a displaying mode where a plurality of printing conditions are applied and in which results where one picture is divided into a plurality of regions and printing is carried out in the divided regions under individual printing conditions are simulation-displayed is provided as a simulation-displaying mode by the display controlling apparatus. In the printing simulation system, comparison between specific portions of pictures can be carried out more easily in a system wherein the pictures of results where a picture is printed under different printing conditions are simulation-displayed for comparison on the monitor to evaluate the color tone. | 09-30-2010 |
20100293458 | COLOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF COLOR DIFFERENCES - Disclosed are embodiments of a color management system and an associated method that display a visual representation of a digital version of a document and further annotate selected object(s) in the visual representation with corresponding statement(s) containing a natural language description of any color differences between the selected object and the same object in a different digital version of the same document. For example, a visual representation of the print-preview version of a document can be displayed and a selected object within the visual representation can be annotated with a statement containing a natural language description of any color differences between the selected object and the same object in the selected-for-print-preview version of the document. By annotating selected object(s) on the display in this manner, the embodiments provide an accurate indication of color variations between the two versions even in a non-calibrated and/or non-optimal viewing environment. | 11-18-2010 |
20100306646 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There is disclosed an image processing apparatus to preview an image to be printed, the image processing apparatus including: an input section to receive an instruction to preview a next image; and a control section to specify an image to be previewed next based on the instruction input through the input section, wherein the control section detects a page for which a print setting content is different from a print setting content for the page of a currently-previewed image among a plurality of pages included in print data to determine the image to be previewed next according to a detected result. | 12-02-2010 |
20100313123 | PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM, PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - According to the present invention, a print control apparatus for displaying a print preview, comprises the units adapted to: spool print data created by application; issue a rendering instruction of the spooled print data to a graphic engine together with output information indicating one of a preview setting and a print setting; return a response about one of a color profile for previewing when the output information indicates the preview setting and a color profile for printing when the output information indicates the print setting, as a response to an inquiry about a color profile from the graphic engine that receives the rendering instruction; and display image data rendered by the graphic engine when the output information indicates the preview setting, and outputting the rendered image data to the printer when the output information indicates the print setting. | 12-09-2010 |
20110022954 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention provides an image processing apparatus that allows the user to verify the execution result of a created cooperation processing flow, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, based on registration type information of a cooperation processing flow (script) required to execute a plurality of functions in cooperation with each other, when the cooperation processing flow is in a registered state, an image processing apparatus of this invention executes processing according to the definition of the cooperation processing flow. On the other hand, when the cooperation processing flow is in a provisionally-registered state, the apparatus changes at least one function included in the cooperation processing flow so as to allow the user who executes the cooperation processing flow to verify its execution result, and executes the changed cooperation processing flow. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029863 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - According to the present invention, even if information on a page displayed on a browser browsed by a user shifts to another page, the user can select and store a necessary page. An information processing apparatus according to the present invention generates, when displaying information obtained via a network on a display unit, print information of the information displayed on the display unit based on a print instruction from the browser, and further stores the generated print information in a storage unit. When a destination from which the information is obtained is different from a just primarily preceding destination, the display unit displays a list of the information stored in the storage unit. | 02-03-2011 |
20110055693 | Print control program and method - A print control program according to the present invention makes an information processor control a printer. The printer is connected to the information processor and can do printing under the conditions set. The set conditions can reduce the consumption of printing media by the printer. The program includes a first step through a fourth step. The first step is to wait until an instruction is entered into the information processor to start printing under the set conditions. The second step is to analyze the set conditions if the information processor detects the entered instruction at the first step. The third step is to form a preview image representing an image or images as printed under the analyzed conditions at least one of which has been changed to further reduce the printing medium consumption. The fourth step is to display the formed preview image on the display of the information processor. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055694 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - The present invention discloses an image processing apparatus for displaying a preview image of an input job and a method of controlling the apparatus. The apparatus determines an attribute of an object included in an input job, analyzes the job while switching the degree of the precision of analysis of the job based on a user-specified display size and the attribute of the object, and generates and displays a preview image of the job based on the analysis results. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055695 | Apparatus and method for creating preview image of object - Apparatus and method for creating a preview image of an object is provided. The apparatus includes an object type detecting unit for detecting an object to be previewed for determining whether the type of the object is text, graphics, and image, a color matching unit for converting a color signal of the detected object into an image forming color signal by using a color profile corresponding to the detected object according to the detection result of the object type detecting unit, and a preview image creating unit for creating and displaying a preview image for the object converted into the image forming color signal. Therefore, because the preview image is displayed on a monitor according to the type of object (text, graphics, or image), a user can predict the image forming result more accurately. Further, because the colors of objects can be adjusted, a printout with desired color characteristics can be obtained. | 03-03-2011 |
20110078566 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, TOOLS, AND USER INTERFACE FOR PREVIEWING SIMULATED PRINT OUTPUT - Methods disclosed permit the dynamic previewing of simulation output. In some embodiments, input data may be converted from a first color space to obtain a plurality of downsampled representations of simulation output data in the second color space. A downsampled representation of the simulation output data with a first downsampling factor may be selected so that the first downsampling factor permits display of the entire image in a current size of the display window. Pixels in the input source data can be correlated with pixels in the selected downsampled representation of the simulation output data. At least one pixel in the selected downsampled representation of the print simulation output data may be mapped to a set of pixels in the input data, wherein the number of pixels in the set is determined by the first downsampling factor and one of the pixels in the set can be selected. | 03-31-2011 |
20110099471 | PRODUCT PREVIEW IN A PRODUCT SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW - A product preview method for a plurality of selected products populated with a selected plurality of digital images includes causing a display of an image selection control. A digital image is identified that corresponds to a user's manipulation of the image selection control. A display is caused of a preview group containing a plurality of preview images for only those of the plurality of products selected to be populated with the identified digital image. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099472 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An input of document data, in which a rule for retrieving an object from a database has been specified for each region, is received. For each region, the number of times that the database is referenced for retrieving the object is counted by applying the rule. A reference value and each of the counted are compared. For each region, it is determined that the object is to be inserted in the region if the result of the comparison is that the number of times is less than or equal to the reference value, and that the object is not to be inserted in the region if the number of times is greater than the reference value. A preview of the document data is displayed with, for each region, the object being inserted in the region or the object not being inserted in the region in accordance with the determination. | 04-28-2011 |
20110145703 | Interactive Programming Mechanism - A method disclosed. The method includes receiving a menu option selection from a function generator window within a graphical user interface (GUI), generating programming code having a function corresponding to the menu option selection and displaying the programming code at a preview window within the GUI. | 06-16-2011 |
20110179354 | Image forming apparatus and method for displaying preview image, and server and method for providing preview image - A method of displaying a preview image from an image forming apparatus. The displaying method includes receiving a preview image request, requesting to an outer server a preview image requested from a user among total pages comprising a pint data according to the preview image request, receiving a preview image on requested pages from the outer server, and displaying the received preview image. Accordingly, the preview image can be generated and displayed quickly. | 07-21-2011 |
20110219301 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: an information taker that obtains information of a key selection screen previously customized on the image forming apparatus itself or information of a key selection screen customized on a different image forming apparatus; and a comparison portion that compares second features currently installed on the image forming apparatus to first features installed on the image forming apparatus originally before the customization or to first features installed on the different image forming apparatus. And if it is judged based on the comparison results that the second features include one or more than one feature of the print function, not included in the first features, a controller makes a display portion indicates that there is a new feature having been installed on the image forming apparatus while displaying a preview image of print data to be outputted. | 09-08-2011 |
20110302490 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - A preview image generating part acquires printing data and then generates a plurality of preview images. A display control part stacks the plurality of generated preview images in the page order and displays two adjacent preview images in the front row. A reverse display control part page-feeds one preview image in the front row sequentially and gradually and reverses the front face to the back face, and then adopts it as the other-side preview image in the front row. | 12-08-2011 |
20120011435 | Display apparatus and display method - Image data for a preview image corresponding to a plurality of pages of a document is generated in each page. Display of the preview image based on the image data that has been generated is initiated, before the image data generation for the preview images in all pages is completed. The preview image is promptly displayed without keeping a user waiting until the image data generation for the image previews in all pages corresponding to the plurality of pages of the document is completed. | 01-12-2012 |
20120036432 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When generating image data for preview image corresponding to document data of a plurality of pages, for each page, and displaying preview images based on the generated image data, a preview image display based on the already-generated image data is started before the image data generation for all the pages is completed, and an instruction of a process for the preview image is accepted and the process is executed before the preview image display for all the pages is completed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120072839 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing apparatus includes a display device, a storage device for storing image data, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image of the image data on a display screen. The preview display unit displays a scroll bar as a UI component for scrolling the preview image, on the display screen. When the image is scrolled, the scroll bar is changed to an enlarged scroll bar. On the screen image, a page jump button and a page number are additionally displayed. | 03-22-2012 |
20120079375 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS ALLOWING EASY EDITION OF PREVIEW IMAGES - An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data. | 03-29-2012 |
20120102398 | AUTOMATED IMAGE TEMPLATE LAYOUT METHOD - A method of making an image product comprising displaying digital images and a template with one or more template openings for display in a GUI. A digital image to be placed in the template opening has an image size that is checked for compatibility with the template opening size. A maximum print or display size is calculated based on a viewing distance for the digital image and on the image size. If the maximum print or display size is different than the selected template opening size, the template opening is modified and centered at the template opening center point. The digital image is then composited into the modified template opening, and the composited template is communicated. | 04-26-2012 |
20120117469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM PRODUCT DESIGN - Computer-implemented electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user to integrate user-specific location maps into custom printed products. During the creation of an electronic design of a product intended for subsequent printing, user-provided location information is received by a server computer and used to generate a user map suitable for high quality printing. Lower resolution display and thumbnail versions of the map suitable for displaying to the user of the client system are generated. | 05-10-2012 |
20120131452 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for giving display guidance on the input status of image data from the document reader, on the display panel. The control unit-side controller includes: a display image displaying controller that performs such control as to display a display image from the display image generator on the display panel when the image output by an image output unit is started; and an output image displaying controller that performs such control as to move the display image displayed on the display panel toward a predetermined position. | 05-24-2012 |
20120159321 | VISUAL INDICATION OF DOCUMENT SIZE IN A VIRTUAL RENDERING - Methods and a system for an electronic device to allow for indicating a size or scale of a rendering in a three dimensional view. A virtual scene is displayed on a display with a work product that is rendered, such as a document or packaging request having a job ticket. The rendering is provided with a common object that is a three dimensional virtual object that relates size to the document or packaging for approval in the proofing process. A quick visual cue is therefore provided to visually convey a realistic scale in proportion to the product rendered three dimensionally. | 06-21-2012 |
20120233544 | Document Sharing Network - The application discloses systems and methods for physically sharing a hard copy of a document. The systems and methods include presenting to a user a graphical user interface having printing options for printing the document, where the graphical user interface has an input for receiving an indication by the user that the user is willing to share the hard copy of the document; presenting to the user options for defining characteristics of the hard copy of the document in response to receiving the indication; and publishing at least one of the defined characteristics within a profile page of the user. | 09-13-2012 |
20120246566 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit receiving whether to print a first-kind data item or a second-kind data item; a storing unit storing a plurality of the first-kind data items in association with a data name; an acquiring unit acquiring the first-kind data item from the storing unit; a transmission control unit transmitting the acquired fist-kind data item if the reception unit receives the print of the first-kind data item; a second-kind data storage control unit storing, in the storing unit, the second-kind data item, which is a converted data item of the transmitted first-kind data item, in association with the data name of the transmitted first-kind data item; and a first display control unit displaying a display image including an image generated from the second-kind data item stored in the storing unit and an image representing the data name corresponding to the second-kind data item. | 09-27-2012 |
20120278710 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTACTS WITHIN AN ONLINE STATIONERY SYSTEM - A graphical user interface, system and method are described for managing a contacts database within an online stationery service. A presentation logic receives contacts to whom personalized stationery will be mailed and generates a graphical user interface comprising: a first region for displaying the contacts received from the stationery service contacts manager, the contacts within the contacts selectable via a user input device, a second region comprising a series of data field for entering a new contact via a user input device, and a third region displaying the contacts to whom the online stationery service will mail stationery directly on behalf of the user, the contacts within the third region selected from the first region or entered in the second region. A print module generates a print job to print the personalized stationery and envelopes containing the address information for the user-selected contacts. | 11-01-2012 |
20120297299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus generates a temporary display document including limited pages together with a main display document corresponding to print data, and displays the temporary display document until generation of the main display document is completed, thereby reducing a time taken to display a part of pages. | 11-22-2012 |
20120324352 | CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM AND CLIENT DEVICE OF CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM | 12-20-2012 |
20130139055 | Proactive creation of photobooks - A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design. | 05-30-2013 |
20130246915 | Information Processing Apparatus - There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer that is installed in an information processing apparatus, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing apparatus to operate as: a preview data generation unit configured to acquire image data of a print job using a RAW spool type and to generate preview data from the image data, wherein the preview data is image data for preview; and a display unit configured to start up a previewer when the preview data of at least one page is generated and to display the preview data on the previewer. | 09-19-2013 |
20140033031 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUOUS PREFLIGHT - A preflight engine configured to preflight multiple portions of a document substantially in parallel by using multi-threadings or time slicing. A controller manages the portions and interacts with the preflight engine to determine which of the portions is to be preflighted next. An observer is coupled to the preflight engine to notify the preflight engine when there is a document to preflight or when a change occurs to a document being preflighted. A database is used to store results of the preflight and the corresponding portions. | 01-30-2014 |
20140136972 | Panoptic Visualization Document Printing - A panoptic visualization document support system includes a request interface and support engine. The request interface is configured to receive a request for printout(s) of selected document component(s) of a layout of document components of a panoptic visualization document collection. The collection has a plurality of document components each of which includes respective media content and has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component. The layout includes a panoptic arrangement of visual representations of the document components of the layout according to the associated metadata of the respective document components. The support engine is configured to retrieve and prepare the selected document component(s) for printing according to at least a selected print layout style. Preparation of the selected document component(s) includes generation of one or more printable document components for respective ones of the printout(s). And the support engine is configured to communicate the printable page(s). | 05-15-2014 |
20140136973 | SEGMENTED DELIVERY OF PREVIEW CONTENT - A system and process are disclosed for providing users with page previews during page loading events, such that the delay experienced before the display of page content is reduced. The previews may include screenshots of the pages or of portions thereof, and may be generated periodically and cached by the system for delivery to user devices. The process of generating and delivering the previews via the Internet or some other network may be implemented partly or wholly within an intermediary system that sits logically between the user devices and content servers. The process may be used with existing browsers without the need for any browser modifications, or may be used with a “preview-aware” browser that includes special program code for providing page previews. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136974 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - Whether all pages have the same print settings is determined before print settings are changed in a print preview, and the setting change is permitted only when all pages have the same print settings. In each layer of XPS data to be processed, whether the print setting information is not added to the element of the layer or whether the print setting information added to the element of the layer is shared by all elements of the layer is determined. A change in the print setting information by the user is accepted if one of the conditions is satisfied. When the print settings are changed, the setting change is not reflected on individual print tickets. The change is reflected on the entire job by adding a print ticket reflected with the setting change on the top element. | 05-15-2014 |
20140245138 | DOCUMENT CONVERSION AND PRINTING - A system for converting and printing documents is disclosed herein. An example includes a repository having a plurality of documents and a user-interface to select at least one of the documents from the repository. The system also includes a non-volatile storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide a prompt via the user interface for each selected document permitting choice between printing the document to a local area network printer, printing the document to a cloud-based printer, or converting the document to a predetermined format The non-volatile storage medium includes additional instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to render the document based on the choice made in response to the prompt. Examples of a method for use in a document management system and a non-volatile storage medium are also disclosed herein. | 08-28-2014 |
20140310593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT CREATION - A document creation interface, including an input section and a document preview section, is provided and displayed to user in order to assist in document preparation and creation. The input section of the interface can contain a structure chart template having input blocks into which a user may provide input. The input blocks may be configured to include an expandable quick guide to assist user in entering relevant information into a given input block. A document is then generated from the input received and based on the organization of the structure chart template. The document can then be dynamically displayed in the document preview section of the interface. | 10-16-2014 |
20140337722 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE - An information processing terminal device includes: an acquiring unit acquiring image data; a detecting unit detecting a posture of the information processing terminal device; a generating unit generating display image data based on the image data acquired in the acquiring unit according to the posture of the terminal device detected by the detecting unit; and a displaying unit displaying the display image data generated by the generating unit on a display unit. If the posture of the terminal device is changed, the generating unit generates the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device. If the posture of the terminal device is changed during the generation of the image data by the generating unit, the generating unit does not generate the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device, until the generation of the display image data is completed. | 11-13-2014 |
20140372882 | REMOTE CONTROL OF IMAGING DEVICES USING RETRIEVED PREVIEW IMAGES - Embodiments are directed towards providing a user of a remote device access to the capabilities of an imaging device by employing preview images. An image of a document may be generated at the imaging device, wherein the imaging device is enabled to print, fax, project, display, or otherwise present a representation of the image. A preview image of the image may be generated at the imaging device. The preview image may be provided to the remote control device. The preview image may be displayed at the remote device. Available imaging device commands, based on an attribute of the document may be provided to and displayed at the remote device. A user of the remote device may be enabled to selectively activate an available imaging device command. An imaging device command activated at the remote device may be provided to the imaging device. The imaging device may perform the provided imaging device command. The image may be updated. The updated image may be printed, faxed, projected, displayed, or otherwise presented. The preview image may be updated. The updated preview image may be provided to the remote device. | 12-18-2014 |
20150067494 | PRINT TO DISPLAY ON MOBILE DEVICE - Text data received or retrieved by a mobile apparatus is printed to a print-ready file that is configured to capture the text data with a page format and width and a display font that is visually acceptable on a display of a mobile apparatus, so that the print-ready file is displayed on the display of the mobile apparatus without horizontal cutoff of the text data. | 03-05-2015 |
20150106706 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OBJECT DISPLAY - An electronic device and a method for controlling an object display are provided. The method of controlling an object display includes displaying at least one input object on a screen, creating and storing property information of the at least one displayed object, creating a preview window in a region of the screen so as to display the at least one object on the preview window, and controlling a display of the object by using the property information of the at least one selected object in correspondence to the at least one displayed object. | 04-16-2015 |
20150324331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCORPORATING ADDITIONAL CONTENT IN A PRINTED DOCUMENT AT A TIME OF PRINTING - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for incorporating additional content in a document at a time of processing are disclosed. For example, the method initiates a request to process a document, receives an option to include one or more additional content to the document, selects at least one additional content to add to the printed document from the endpoint device at the time of processing, defines at least one access control of the at least one additional content and sends the request to process the document, wherein the at least one additional content is incorporated into the document that is processed and the at least one additional content has the at least one access control. | 11-12-2015 |
20150341508 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INFORMATION DISPLAY - An image forming apparatus includes a display having a function of editing input image data and a function of displaying page images immediately after reading in order. When a first type of instruction to change shape of an image formed on a recording medium is given, the edition is not reflected on a document display mode screen image, and when a second type of instruction to edit page by page the recording medium having images formed thereon is given, the edition is reflected on the document display mode screen image. By switching between a finish preview screen image and the document display mode screen image, the image after edition and the image immediately after reading can be compared easily. | 11-26-2015 |
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