Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090268236 | Printing System and Printer Driver - In a printing system, in response to a request for duplex printing of print object data, the control portion of an information processing apparatus executes a first printing process according to a first printer driver, to generate first printing data and print information based on the print object data. The first printing data is used by a first printing apparatus for printing on the first surface of a recording medium. The control portion further executes a second printing process according to a second printer driver, to generate second printing data based on the print information. The second printing data is used by a second printing apparatus for printing on the second surface of the recording medium. | 10-29-2009 |
20100027036 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device includes an image forming unit, a test image forming unit, a measuring unit, a color density correction data creating unit, a color order setting unit, a performing unit, a print image data acquiring unit, a to-be-used color determination unit, a first determining unit, and an print image forming unit. The image forming unit is configured to form an image based on image data by using at least one of a plurality of colors of developer. The test image forming unit is configured to control the image forming unit to form a test image based on test image data. The measuring unit is configured to measure density of the test image. The color density correction data creating unit is configured to create the color density correction data based on the measured density. The color order setting unit sets a color order. The performing unit performs a color density correction data creating process to create color density correction data for the plurality of colors in the color order, by controlling the test image forming unit, the measuring unit, and the color density correction data creating unit. The print image data acquiring unit is configured so as to be capable of acquiring print image data while the performing unit is presently performing a color density correction data creating process for a current color that is one of the plurality of colors. The to-be-used color determination unit determines, based on the print image data, a to-be-used color among the plurality of colors of developer, the to-be-used color being a color that should be used for forming a print image based on the print image data by the image forming unit. The first determining unit determines whether or not the performing unit has already performed the color density correction data creating process for the to-be-used color. The print image forming unit controls the image forming unit to form the print image based on the print image data by using the color density correction data corresponding to the to-be-used color, when the first determining unit determines that the performing unit has already performed the color density correction data creating process for the to-be-used color. | 02-04-2010 |
20100110460 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a communication unit configured to receive image data and an instruction; a nonvolatile memory configured to store color correction data; a color correction data generating unit configured to generate a new color correction data and update the color correction data stored in the nonvolatile memory with the new color correction data; and a control unit. When the instruction contains a first instruction which instructs performing the printing operation without updating the color correction data, the control unit corrects a gradation of an image contained in the image data using existing color correction data stored in the nonvolatile memory. When the instruction does not contain the first instruction and also when a given condition is satisfied, the control unit causes the color correction data generating unit to generate the new color correction data and update the color correction data with the new color correction data, and corrects the gradation of the image contained in the image data using the new color correction data. When the instruction does not contain the first instruction and also when the given condition is not satisfied, the control unit corrects the gradation of the image contained in the image data using the existing color correction data stored in the nonvolatile memory. | 05-06-2010 |
20100271660 | COMPUTER - A computer connectable with a printer includes an application unit that outputs first data, an interface that generates second data based on the first data, and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a generating unit, a determining unit, and a reducing unit. The generating unit generates third data based on the second data. The printer prints an image corresponding to the third data. The determining unit determines whether or not the image corresponding to the third data should be printed by the printer. The reducing unit reduces at least one of a first time period required to generate the second data and a second time period required to generate the third data, if the determining unit determines that the image corresponding to the third data should not be printed by the printer. | 10-28-2010 |
20100302580 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a host computer and a server computer communicable with the host computer via a network. The host computer includes a first transmitting unit that transmits image data and position data indicating a position of a storage area in a storage unit. The storage area stores supplementary image data. The server computer includes an image acquiring unit, a combining unit, and a second transmitting unit. The image acquiring unit acquires the supplementary image data from the storage area based on the position data. The combining unit combines the image data transmitted from the host computer and the acquired supplementary image data to create composite image data. The second transmitting unit transmits the composite image data to a printer to print an image corresponding to the composite image data. | 12-02-2010 |
20110051159 | Image Processing Device and Computer Readable Medium - A color space converting section of an image processing device waits to output when acquiring partial data including gray prior to partial data including a chromatic color. After starting to wait, when acquiring partial data including a chromatic color, the converting section outputs multi-color converted data as the converted data expressing gray by a combination of densities of the multiple colors with respect to the partial data its output has been waited. While, when the acquisition of the image data was completed without acquiring any partial data including a chromatic color, the converting section outputs a single black color converted data as the converted data expressing gray by a density of a single color black with respect to the partial data its output has been waited. When acquiring partial data including a chromatic color, then the converting section converts partial data acquired thereafter into the multi-color converted data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110075221 | Image Processing Device, Computer Program Product Including Image Processing Program Embodied On Computer Readable Medium, and Image Forming Apparatus - An image processing device include a memory, a rasterizer and a color space converter. The rasterizer is configured to generate raster data expressed in a first color space by rendering an object in the memory. The color space converter is configured to convert the raster data from the first color space to a second color space capable of being set so as to reproduce gray of gray pixels in the object by any one of a black coloring material and mixture of multiple color materials. The rasterizer determines whether the gray is reproduced by the black coloring material or the mixture of multiple color materials based on an attribute of the object and adds the gray reproduction information that is obtained from the determination to the raster data. The color space converter sets pixel levels in the second color space based on the gray reproduction information. | 03-31-2011 |
20110128577 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM, PRINT CONTROLLER AND COMPUTER EXECUTABLE METHOD USING THE PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM - A computer readable medium having a computer program product stored thereon configures a print controller to perform as a generation section, a storing section, a determination section and an execution section. The generation section is configured to generate a print command based on printing object data that is sequentially input. The storing section is configured to store the print command in a memory without outputting to an image forming section. The determination section is configured to determine which one of processing including outputting, deleting and keeping storing is executed for the stored print command based on a content of printing object data that is input after the printing object data for which the print command has been generated. The execution section is configured to execute the processing that is determined by the determination section for the stored print command. | 06-02-2011 |
20110242567 | Information Processing Apparatus and Computer Program for Information Processing Apparatus - An information processing apparatus connectable to a printing apparatus which prints an image on a recording medium, including: a display; a storage device which stores an application program which generates an image data of the image as a display data to be displayed on the display, and a printer driver which generates a driver data to be transmitted to the printing apparatus based on the display data generated by the application program; a controller which includes a display-data acquiring section which acquires the display data from the application program, a driver-data acquiring section which acquires the driver data from the printer driver, and a comparing section which compares the display data acquired by the display-data acquiring section and the driver data acquired by the driver-data acquiring section, and the controller displays a comparison result by the comparing section on the display. | 10-06-2011 |
20110279843 | Apparatus for Controlling Image Formation, Computer Readable Device Having Stored Thereon Computer-Executable Instructions for Forming Images, and Method of Generating Image Formation Setting Information - A computer readable device has stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to function as a generation module, a setting module and a production module. The generation module is configured to generate a data structure including a first region storing a first image formation condition and a second region for storing location information representing a location of the second region and in which a second image formation condition is written by an application program based on the location information. The setting module is configured to set the first image formation condition in the first region based on the second image formation condition written in the second region by the application program. The production module is configured to produce image formation data based on the first image formation condition stored in the first region. | 11-17-2011 |
20110292457 | Scanning Apparatus, Information Processing Apparatus, Program and Scanning System - A scanning apparatus which scans a document, includes: a scanning section which includes a scanning area and which scans the document in the scanning area; a control device which includes a position information capturing section which captures a position information indicating a position of the document on the scanning area when the document is scanned by the scanning section and a processing section which performs a plurality of processes with respect to an image data of the document scanned by the scanning section based on the position information captured by the position information capturing section. | 12-01-2011 |
20120075485 | PROGRAM OF MOBILE DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE DEVICE - A computer-readable recording device may store a computer program including instructions for causing a computer of a mobile device to operate as: (1) an image specifying module that specifies a plurality of partial images corresponding to a plurality of candidate devices within a taken image that is displayed by a display unit provided in the mobile device, and (2) a communication controlling module that controls a communication unit configured to communicate using a wireless network such that the communication unit communicates with a candidate device corresponding to the partial image, in a case where an operation unit configured to receive an operation on the mobile device by a user receives a selection of the partial image. | 03-29-2012 |
20120242689 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a transmitting unit transmitting target data of a first format stored in the storing unit, the first format being capable of constituting a multi-page file; a converted-data acquiring unit acquiring, in unit of page, converted data of a second format, which is generated by an external apparatus based on the target data; a display unit displaying an image corresponding to each page based on the converted data; a converted-data storing unit storing the converted data; and a manipulation receiving unit configured to receive an input. If the manipulation receiving unit receives a designation of a page, and the converted data which is generated based on the designated page is not stored in the storing unit, the converted-data acquiring unit acquires the converted data generated based on the designated page of the target data in preference to the other converted data. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243024 | Information Processing Devices and Information Processing Processes - An image processing device includes a preview function including specifying a setting related to printing, generating a first processed image by using a target file by performing image processing corresponding to the specified setting, storing the generated first processed image, displaying the first processed image, and displaying, when the setting is changed, a second processed image that is generated from image processing of the first processed image and corresponds to the changed setting. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243039 | NONTRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A nontransitory storage medium storing an information processing program to be executed by an information processing device, the program being designed to have the device function as: a display controlling section for controlling a display portion to display icon images; a transmission controlling section for controlling a transmitting portion to transmit user-selected targeted data among data corresponding to the icon images; an obtainment controlling section for controlling an obtaining portion to obtain converted data created by an external device based on the targeted data; and a storage controlling section for storing reduced-size image data created using the targeted data, into a storage portion such that the reduced-size image data is associated with the targeted data. For each data with which the reduced-size image data is associated, the display portion displays a reduced-size image corresponding to the reduced-size image data as an icon image. | 09-27-2012 |
20130208999 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM EXECUTABLE BY IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS - An image editing apparatus including: an image-data obtainer which obtains: first-face and second-face image data respectively created by reading first and second faces of a document, the first-face image data being as first target data, the second-face image data being as second target data; a receiver which receives a command for executing a processing for one of the first and second target data; and an image processor which, upon receipt of the command by the receiver, executes, for the one target data, a processing based on the command and executes, for another of the first and second target data, a processing symmetrical to the processing based on the command with respect to an axis extending through a center of an image corresponding to the one target data and extending in a sub-scanning direction during reading of the document. | 08-15-2013 |
20130235409 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE OUTPUT PROGRAM - A non-transitory medium storing an image processing program causing a computer of an image-data processing device to function as: an image-data obtaining unit which obtains image data respectively corresponding to successive pages; a processing unit which, when one image data is blank-sheet data, and each of two image data just before and after the one image data is not the blank-sheet data, establishes a state in which the storage device stores output command data for commanding the output device to output a blank-sheet image corresponding to the one image data; and another processing unit which, when one image data and data just before or after the one image data are blank-sheet data, establishes a state in which the storage device does not store the output command data for commanding the output device to output a blank-sheet image corresponding to the one image data. | 09-12-2013 |
20130262413 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES THAT MERGE FILES, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS FOR MERGING FILES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA STORING INSTRUCTIONS THAT INSTRUCT INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES TO MERGE FILES - An information processing devices transmits a request including identifying information that identifies the information processing device. The information processing device receives a first file and first location information that represents a location of a first terminal device. The information processing device receives a second file and second location information that represents a location of a second terminal device. The information processing device determines a positional relationship between the first and second terminal devices based on the first and second location information. The information processing device merges the first and second files in an arrangement based on the positional relationship between the first and second terminal devices. Some information processing devices receive a first file request and particular identifying information identifying a particular terminal device. The information processing devices transmit a second file request and a particular response including a particular file in response to receiving the first file request. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES THAT MERGE FILES, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS FOR MERGING FILES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA STORING INSTRUCTIONS THAT INSTRUCT INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES TO MERGE FILES - Information processing devices include a sensor, a storage device, a communication device, a processor, and a memory. The information processing devices receive a particular file and particular sensor information from a terminal device. The particular sensor information is generated by the terminal device. The information processing devices access certain sensor information generated by the sensor. The information processing devices determine a merge condition based on the particular sensor information and the certain sensor information. The information processing devices merge a certain file stored in the storage device and the particular file based on the merge condition. Some information processing devices transmit certain sensor information to another terminal device. Such information processing devices receive a particular file and a merge condition from the other terminal device. Such information processing devices merge a certain file stored in the storage portion and the particular file based on the merge condition. | 10-03-2013 |
20140002853 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF DATA PROCESSING | 01-02-2014 |
20140002860 | OUTPUT PROCESSING METHOD, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUTPUT APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
20140016153 | RELAYING DEVICE - The relaying device may receive folder selecting instruction information from the image processing device. The relaying device may receive folder identifying information and image data identifying information from the server. The relaying device may generate first selection screen data, in a case where it is determined that one or more image data and one or more subfolders are stored in the selected folder. The relaying device may send the first selection screen data to the image processing device. The relaying device may generate second selection screen data in a case where accessing image selecting instruction information is received. The relaying device may send the second selection screen data to the image processing device. The relaying device may execute a process for causing the image processing device to acquire selected image data in a case where image data selecting instruction information is received from the image processing device. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019869 | RELAYING DEVICE - The relaying device may generate a first type of image data selection screen data for causing the display unit of the image processing device to display a first type of image data selection screen having a first display pattern, in a case where the folder type information regarding the selected folder indicates that the selected folder is a first type of folder used for storing a first type of image data. The relaying device may generate a second type of image data selection screen data for causing the display unit of the image processing device to display a second type of image data selection screen having a second display pattern which is different from the first display pattern, in a case where the folder type information regarding the selected folder indicates that the selected folder is a second type of folder used for storing a second type of image data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140146330 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an image processing program causing a controller to execute: obtaining a plurality of image data; allowing the display section to display at least one print preview image; judging whether two points move away from each other or approach toward each other; and changing the value of N, in a case that it is judged that the two points move away from each other or approach toward each other. In a case that the at least one print preview image has been displayed on the display section and that the value of N is changed, the display section is allowed to display a print preview image in the particular area depending on the value of N changed by the controller. | 05-29-2014 |
20140280772 | SERVER, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SERVER - A server may receive a plurality of target data transmitted by the image processing device. The plurality of target data may be data on which data processing is to be executed. The server may generate a plurality of target data identification information for identifying each of the plurality of target data. The server may store one item of association information corresponding to the plurality of target data identification information in a storage unit and transmit the one item of association information to the image processing device. The server may receive the one item of association information and data processing execution instruction information transmitted by the image processing device. The data processing execution instruction information may be for instructing execution of the data processing on the target data. The server may execute the data processing on the target data identified by the one item of association information. | 09-18-2014 |