| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080282333 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS UNIFYING MANAGEMENT FOR USE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND USE OF WEB SERVICE - An MFP stores information of a web service for permitting use with respect to each user, and information for limiting a use of its function. When there is a web service allowed to be used by the logged in user, its list is displayed. When a linked function with the selected web service is not allowed to be used, a massage to the effect that is displayed and when the use of the function is limited, limited contents are displayed to confirm the use of the web service. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090040537 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY PROGRAM, SCREEN GENERATING METHOD, AND SCREEN GENERATING PROGRAM - The MFP includes an EEPROM storing display screens, and a display control portion to read a display screen for display on a display portion. When a first area in the display screen includes a variable display item for which an arbitrary number of data pieces are displayed, the display control portion acquires the number of data pieces to be displayed therefor, changes the size of a field for the variable display item based on the acquired number of data pieces, determines the size of a second area based on the size of the first area after the size change of the variable display item field and the size of the display area of the display portion, and modifies the read display screen to a display screen having the first area after the size change of the variable display item field and the second area of the determined size arranged therein. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090296133 | NETWORK SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA STORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE DATA TRANSMITTING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display, an obtaining unit obtaining second data containing information for identifying the link information having no image data in a corresponding storage position among the plural pieces of link information contained in the first data, a display control unit making the display selectively display first link information having image data in a corresponding storage position and second link information having no image data in the corresponding storage position in different formats based on the second data, and a transmission unit transmitting image data generated by a scanning unit to the corresponding storage position. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090310168 | PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WEB PAGE PRINTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is provided with: a job data reception processing portion that receives a command to print a web page and a conditional expression used to search for that web page from a terminal; a print execution processing portion that causes a printing device to print a web page based on the received command; a web browser portion that causes a search engine to search for a web page based on the received conditional expression and receives the results of that search; and a window display processing portion that causes the obtained results to be displayed in a display. The web browser portion furthermore obtains a web page selected by a user from the displayed results, and the print execution processing portion causes the printing device to print the obtained web page. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100067044 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display; a memory for storing first information indicating an acquisition source of image data, second information indicating an editing process of the image data and third information indicating an output destination of the image data associated with one another as a setting information group; an accepting unit for accepting the first information to the third information; a display control unit for displaying images used for accepting the first information to the third information on a first area to a third area, respectively, of the display; and a registration unit for, when the accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering the at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as the setting information group in the memory. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100332464 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110032556 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A document processing device comprises: a document data acquiring part for acquiring document data; a character string extracting part for extracting character strings satisfying a predetermined condition for character string extraction from the document data acquired by the document data acquiring part; a format creating part for deriving the respective features of the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part, and for creating a format containing the derived features in the form of data; a display part on which the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part are displayed in a list form, and on which the format created by the format creating part is displayed; and a format correcting part for correcting the format displayed on the display part. The character string extracting part extracts character strings again to conform to the format corrected by the format correcting part. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035671 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF SHARING VOICE OPERATION HISTORY, AND METHOD OF SHARING OPERATION ITEM DISTINGUISH TABLE - The present invention is intended to share information as to voice operation in an image processing device with a voice operation function with another image processing device, thereby improving operability for using another one. An image processing device allowed to be connected to a network comprising: an operational panel for displaying a menu screen and receiving a manual operation to the menu screen; a speech input part for inputting speech; an operation item specifying part for specifying an operation item to be a target of operation based on a voice word; a voice operation control part for executing a processing corresponding to the specified operation item; a history information generation part for generating a voice operation history information in which the voice word and the specified operation item are associated; and a transmission part for transmitting the generated voice operation history information to another image processing device through the network. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110063215 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD - A remote control system includes a PC and a MFP capable of remotely controlling an external device. PC includes a browsing portion to receive an operation screen from the MFP, a display control portion to allow a projector to project the received operation screen onto a projection plane, and a position detection portion to detect a position pointed to by a user in the projected operation screen. The browsing portion transmits to the MFP a command which is included in the operation screen and is related to the detected position in the operation screen. The MFP includes an operation screen transmission portion to transmit to the PC the operation screen, including a command for specifying control, for accepting an operation, a command reception portion to receive a command transmitted from the PC, and a process control portion to control the external device or the device itself in accordance with the received command. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110154176 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic document managing apparatus includes a link information acquiring unit, an integration unit, and an addition unit. The link information acquiring unit acquires link information relating to link destinations inside each of a plurality of electronic documents. The integration unit integrates the respective pieces of link information relating to the plurality of electronic documents to generate integrated link information. The addition unit adds the integrated link information to the plurality of electronic documents, respectively. | 06-23-2011 |