| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080198413 | Image forming device - An image forming device is provided with an external storage, a printing unit, a storage controlling unit configured to store the image data in the external storage or an internal storage. The storage controlling device stores the image data developed from the print data retrieved from the print data stored in the external in the external storage, while stores the image data developed from the print data transmitted from the external device in the internal storage. At least file names of image data stored in the external storage on the displaying unit are displayed for selection when the external storage is connected to the image forming device, and file names of image data stored in the internal storage are displayed when the external storage is not connected to the image forming device. A reprinting unit performs a reprinting operation based on the selected image data. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080198415 | Image forming device - An image forming device configured as follows. A user is allowed to select desired print data files to be printed from among print data files stored in an external storage. A file list generating unit generates a list of the desired print data files selected by the user. The list includes an order of the desired print data files. A page arrangement unit arranges each page of the desired print data files on each recording sheet based on the list of the desired print data, a print mode and a total number of pages of the desired print data files. Blank pages to be added to complete the arrangement of pages of the print data files with respect to the recording sheets are generated. Page data is retrieved based on the arrangement of pages and is converted to image data, which is printed by an image data printing unit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080199008 | Image forming device and image forming method - An image forming device, to which an external storage is detachably connected, is provided with a first password acquiring unit configured to acquire a password input by a user when print data is to be encrypted, and an encrypting unit configured to encrypt the print data in accordance with the password acquired by the first password acquiring unit and store the encrypted print data in the external storage. The image forming device is further provided with a second password acquiring unit configured to acquire a password input by the user when the encrypted print data is to be printed, a decrypting unit configured to decrypt the encrypted print data in accordance with the password acquired by the second password acquiring unit, and a printing unit configured to print the print data which is encrypted by the encrypting unit and then decrypted by the decrypting unit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201773 | Image Processing Device - An image processing device is provide with an external storage which is detachably connectable to the image processing device, an inputting unit configured to allow a user to input user information, a registration unit configured to register ID information intrinsic to the external storage and the user information input through the inputting unit with registration data in a related manner, a permission unit configured to retrieve the ID information from the external storage and permit access to the external storage connected to the image processing device only if the retrieved ID information is included in the registered ID information which is registered with the registration data, and a data processing unit configured to read/write data from/to the external storage if access to the external storage is permitted by the permission unit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090109497 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing method includes steps of acquiring a first two-dimensional parallelogram image, creating a second two-dimensional parallelogram image by dividing the first image into two figures by a line along a predetermined scanning direction and joining together respective sides of the two figures corresponding to an upper base and a lower base of the first image, calculating a value w representing a numerical number of pixels constituting an upper base or a lower base of the second image and a value h representing a numerical number of pixels in a height direction of the second image, securing a w×h two-dimensional memory space, writing pixel values on each scanning line of the second image, sequentially in a scanning order, onto a corresponding scanning line of the two-dimensional memory space, and storing supplementary information of the second image in association with the two-dimensional memory space. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090210785 | Device, Method and Computer Readable Medium for Page Description Language Processing - There is provided a page description language processing device, comprising: a data input unit to input data described in a page description language; a judgment unit to read a command from the data and to judge whether the command should be converted into a common intermediate code; an intermediate code storage unit; a controller to store a common intermediate command in the intermediate code storage unit if the judgment unit judges that the command should be converted in the common intermediate command, and to store a special intermediate command the intermediate code storage unit if the judgment judges that the command should not be converted into the common command; and an intermediate code execution unit configured to execute a common module for the common intermediate command, and to execute a special module for the special intermediate command. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090244629 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - An image generating device, for generating an image including a gradation (in which a color value specifying color changes from the center of the gradation through annular areas) according to an image drawing instruction, comprises an extraction unit that extracts gradation pattern parameters specifying a gradation pattern of the gradation from the image drawing instruction, an area determination unit that determines the annular areas, each having a prescribed width, to be drawn in one color with a uniform color value, based on the gradation pattern parameters extracted by the extraction unit, and a drawing unit that draws the annular areas such that each annular area is drawn in one color and the colors in annular areas are different from each other. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100053659 | Multi-Function Device - A multi-function device may be connected with a color printer capable of printing in a communicable manner. The multi-function device may be configured to store identification information of the color printer, to color-scan an object to be scanned, to monochrome-print based on first image data representing an scanned object, to allow a user to input an instruction, and to send second image data representing a color-scanned object with the identification information of the color printer as a destination if a predetermined instruction is input. | 03-04-2010 |