Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080239374 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANAGING STORAGE AREA, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus ( | 10-02-2008 |
20090055644 | ADDRESS LIST MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ADDRESS LIST MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An address list management apparatus stores, for each user of an MFP (Multi Function Peripheral), a different address list that lists address information pieces for transmission of image data by the MFP. Upon being instructed by a logged-in user to transmit image data, the MFP transmits, to the address list management apparatus, a request for the address list that specifies the user. Upon receiving the request, the address list management apparatus transmits, to the MFP, a sending list pertaining to the user. The sending list is created by deleting secret information from address information pieces in the address list, and modifying such address information pieces so that image data is transmitted to the address list management apparatus. The address list management apparatus refers to the address list, and transfers the image data to the specified address. | 02-26-2009 |
20090059280 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Personal address books of users are stored in an address server. Each user registers, with the personal address book of his/her own, conditions (transmission conditions) that should be satisfied when other users transmit image data to the user. The conditions are registered in correspondence with addresses of the other users. When one of the other users transmits (as a transmission source) to the user (as a transmission destination) who has set the transmission conditions, from an MFP, the transmission conditions, which were set by the transmission destination user with respect to the transmitter, are downloaded from the address server to the transmission source MFP. And then the MFP transmits the image data to the transmission destination user under the downloaded transmission conditions. This enables the transmission destination user to cause the image data to be transmitted thereto under such conditions that match the needs of the transmission destination user. | 03-05-2009 |
20090091776 | Image Transmission Apparatus, Image Transmission Method, And Image Transmission Program - An image transmission apparatus includes a storage part that stores previous transmission methods; a receiving part that receives a destination name from a sender (S | 04-09-2009 |
20090091788 | IMAGE SENDING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE SENDING METHOD - An image sending system including a server and a plurality of image sending apparatuses. The server (i) receives sending method specification information specified by a receiver and indicating a sending method for image data addressed to the receiver, (ii) records the sending method specification information and an identifier of the receiver in association with each other, (iii) and receives updated sending method specification information and rewrites the recorded sending method specification information with the updated sending method specification information. Each image sending apparatus (i) receives a selection of an identifier of a receiver of image data to be sent, (ii) obtains from the server the recorded sending method specification information and identification of the receiver, and (iii) when the identifier of receiver in the received selection matches the obtained identifier of receiver, sends the image data | 04-09-2009 |
20090094254 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD - An image transmission system includes an image transmission device and a server that provides recipient information including recipient specification information and a transmission method and destination for image data. The server records, in association with a recipient identifier, recipient-designated recipient information and display mode designation information indicating a display mode for the recipient information. Each time the recipient information and display mode designation information is updated, the server overwrites the recorded information with the updated recipient information and display mode designation information. The image transmission device receives a selection of a recipient identifier for image data transmission, and if the selected recipient identifier is associated with the recipient information and display mode designation information in the server, acquires such information from the server, and when transmitting image data based on the recipient information, displays the recipient information according to a display mode indicated in the acquired display mode designation information. | 04-09-2009 |
20090100071 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, REGISTRATION METHOD, AND REGISTRATION PROGRAM - An image transmission apparatus is high in convenience, operability and reliability when newly registering a transmission destination to an address book. The apparatus obtains a list of destination names corresponding to recipients who have registered a recipient setting designating a transmission method; receives from a user a selection of whether to follow the recipient setting; receives from the user (a) if a selection to not follow the recipient setting has been received, a destination name and a transmission method to correspond thereto, and (b) if a selection to follow the recipient setting has been received, a selection of a destination name from the list; in the case of (a), registers the destination name and the transmission method in association as a candidate for the destination; and in the case of (b), registers the selected destination name with an indication that the recipient setting is to be followed, as a candidate. | 04-16-2009 |
20090109472 | Image Transmission System - The subject matter of the present invention described herein is an image transmission system in which an image transmission apparatus uses configuration that has been set in a server. The image transmission apparatus acquires identifiers from the server, and displays the identifiers on a UI screen based on the acquired identifiers. Upon receiving a selection from the UI screen, the image transmission apparatus acquires an address corresponding to the selected identifier from the server, and uses the address for transmission of image data. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113010 | Image Transmission System - Upon accepting, from a user B, a new registration of a configuration showing that the user B wishes to receive data via a FAX, a server sets a notification flag to an address book of a user A which includes an address of the user B. Upon accepting a login of the user A, an MFP displays a message to notify the user A of the new registration by the user B, based on the notification flag. The user A, who has notified of the new registration, can transmit the data to the user B with use of the new registration configured by the user B, namely via a FAX. Accordingly, the user B can receive the data via a FAX as the user B wishes. | 04-30-2009 |
20090303526 | DOCUMENT DATA UPDATE INFORMATION CREATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT DATA UPDATE INFORMATION CREATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A document data update information providing system has a document data accumulation apparatus and an image forming apparatus interconnected via a network. The document data accumulation apparatus creates update information of document data selectively among those accumulated in the document data accumulation apparatus, by an update information creator. The image forming apparatus transmits a request for update information of document data, thereby obtains the selectively created update information and displays it on a display. | 12-10-2009 |
20090307359 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus has a server cooperation function to transmit data to a data processing server connected therewith via a network and receive processed data after the server performs data processing, and is capable of communicating with a plurality of external apparatuses via the network by establishing concurrent connections. A judger judges whether or not the number of the currently established connections with the external apparatuses reaches a limit number of connections that is an allowed upper limit of concurrent connections, and a controller reserves a connection with the data processing server if the judger judges that the number of the currently established connections with the external apparatuses does not reach the limit number of connections during execution of the server cooperation function, and cancels the reserved connection with the data processing server after the end of the execution of the server cooperation function. | 12-10-2009 |
20090316206 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, JOB EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM - If a job executed on the data to be processed is stopped due to interruption of a wireless communication with an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal, which happens to occur while the image processing apparatus is receiving the data to be processed, which is transmitted by the portable terminal, the image processing apparatus examines if the portable terminals connected before and after stop of the job execution are one and the same, and requests the portable terminal to retransmit the data to be processed. And then the image processing apparatus resumes executing the job on the data to be processed, which is retransmitted in response to the request. | 12-24-2009 |
20100085598 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPLEX JOB EXECUTION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an accepter that accepts a complex job including a plurality of jobs to be executed cooperatively by a plurality of image processing apparatuses including this image processing apparatus itself; a job controller that makes the plurality of image processing apparatuses including this image processing apparatus itself, cooperatively execute the plurality of jobs included in the accepted complex job; a job administrator that administers execution states of the respective jobs included in the complex job and generates job information pieces indicating job details and execution states of the respective jobs; and a memory that records in itself the generated job information pieces. | 04-08-2010 |
20100153643 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING AND ACCESSING REMOVABLE EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE IN SIMPLE SCHEME, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE INPUT AND OUTPUT APPARATUS - It is recognized that an attached USB memory is an unanalyzable USB memory. Then, disconnect setting is made. A USB connection process is performed. A PC is instructed through a connection line to establish USB connection. The PC recognizes that the attached device is a USB-connected MFP. The PC acquires data control information of the MFP. The MFP then transfers, through the connection line, the data control information output from the USB memory. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153887 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM, DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A presentation system comprises a data management apparatus for storing document data for presentation therein, a display device for displaying a plurality of pages contained in the document data, and a terminal device capable of performing communication with the data management apparatus. The terminal device sends request data for requesting attachment of an electronic sticky note to the document data to the data management apparatus via network communication according to an input from a listening user of the presentation. The data management apparatus determines a sticky-note attachment object page out of the plurality of pages, to which the electronic sticky note is to be attached, on the basis of page specifying data included in the request data. Then, the data management apparatus generates a file in which the electronic sticky note is attached to the determined sticky-note attachment object page. | 06-17-2010 |
20100265544 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND PRINTER DRIVER - When a user activates a printer driver recorded in a memory of an information processing apparatus, a setting screen to configure operation setting for the printer driver's matching image forming apparatus is displayed on a display of the information processing apparatus, and in the setting screen, an instruction portion to give an instruction to show the documents stored in a memory area of the image forming apparatus is shown. And when the user gives an instruction by using the instruction portion, a request to show the documents is transmitted to the image forming apparatus. Receiving the request, the image forming apparatus returns to the information processing apparatus, reference information to select a document among those stored in the memory area. And then, a selection screen to select a document among those stored therein is displayed on the display, based on the reference information received from the image forming apparatus. | 10-21-2010 |
20110019232 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DEVICE OPERATION SETTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus has a first device driver and a second device driver installed thereon to use a first device and a second device, respectively. When the first device driver is activated, an operation setting screen to perform operation setting for the first device is displayed on a display portion. If a user changes the target device from the first device to the second device while performs operation setting via the operation setting screen, the second device driver for the second device takes over a value set using the first device driver and recorded in a memory. | 01-27-2011 |
20110141520 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR EXECUTING JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus reads out job ticket data indicating first conditions used for executing a job and a permission to change each of the first conditions and lack thereof. The image processing apparatus, then, reads out a functional conditions table indicating a first group made by grouping second conditions having a common concept and a second group made by grouping the first group having a common concept. Then, the image processing apparatus presents, as options for changing a first condition to which applying a change is prohibited, second conditions included in a first group to which a second condition that is the same as the first condition belongs. The image processing apparatus presents, as options for changing a first condition to which applying a change is allowed, second conditions included in a second group to which a second condition that is the same as the first condition belongs. | 06-16-2011 |
20120180003 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE EACH HAVING TOUCH PANEL - MFP as an image forming apparatus includes a touch panel, a controller connected to the touch panel, a memory for storing a data file, and a communication device for communicating with another device. Continuously after two contacts are made on the touch panel, when a gesture of moving the two contacts in a direction that a spacing therebetween is decreased and then releasing the two contacts after being moved is detected, the controller identifies a file presented by an icon displayed in an area defined by the two contacts at least either of before and after being moved, as a file to be transferred, and transfers the file to be transferred to the other device in response to a request to transfer a file from the other device received by the communication device. | 07-12-2012 |
20120192120 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE EACH HAVING TOUCH PANEL - An image forming apparatus includes a touch panel, a controller connected to the touch panel, and a memory. When a pinch-in gesture on the touch panel is detected during execution of an application, the controller stores, in the memory, information showing a state of processing of the application when the pinch-in gesture is detected, and when a pinch-out gesture on the touch panel is detected, the controller reads the stored information showing the state of processing of the application from the memory, and resumes processing of the application from the state shown by the information. | 07-26-2012 |
20120206388 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE EACH HAVING TOUCH PANEL - Continuously after two contacts are made on a touch panel, when a gesture of moving the two contacts in a direction that a spacing therebetween is decreased and then releasing the two contacts after being moved is detected, an image forming apparatus identifies a program presented by an icon displayed in an area defined by the two contacts at least either of before and after being moved, as a program subjected to the gesture, and stores information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture. The image forming apparatus reads the information that identifies the program subjected to the gesture in accordance with a command related to the program subjected to the gesture to execute an operation related to the program, and transmits information depending on the operation to another device indicated by the command. | 08-16-2012 |
20120224206 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming device that operates in one of power-saving mode and normal mode by switching therebetween comprises: an automatic response unit configured to perform control to switch from the power-saving mode to the normal mode in accordance with a protocol on which a request issued by an information terminal device is based; an analysis unit configured to analyze whether or not the information terminal device has issued a request based on a protocol that requires the switching from the power-saving mode to the normal mode without a job execution; a message generation unit configured to, when the result of the analysis by the analysis unit is affirmative, generate a message for causing the information terminal device to change the protocol; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated message. | 09-06-2012 |
20120296979 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conference system comprises an operation input part for receiving an operation input for selecting a send object file, which is given by a user who is a conference participant, an image pickup part for picking up an image of said user, a motion detection part for detecting a predetermined motion of said user on the basis of a picked-up image obtained by said image pickup part, and a sending operation control part for sending said send object file under the condition that said predetermined motion is detected. | 11-22-2012 |
20140340704 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, STARTUP CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH STARTUP CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a main processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express, a startup control portion to control startup of the main processing portion, and a connection portion connectable with an option board having a sub processing portion set as a root complex of PCI Express. The startup control portion includes a detection portion to detect the option board connected to the connection portion, an acquisition portion to acquire ability information about the option board at a stage before the main processing portion starts up, when the option board is detected, a selection portion to select one of the main processing portion and the sub processing portion, based on the acquired ability information, and a switch portion to start one selected from the main processing portion and the sub processing portion as a root complex. | 11-20-2014 |