50results about "Digital output to print units" patented technology

A print management system may include at least one client device for generating print jobs, and a plurality of print servers for storing print job information based upon the generated print jobs. The print servers may cooperate to share the print job information therebetween. At least one printing station may retrieve the shared print job information, and selectively print print jobs based thereon.

A method including presenting a video sequence on a display where the video sequence includes video frames, calculating a quality indicator with respect to the video frames and automatically indicating which video frames meet or exceed a predetermined image quality threshold depending on the quality indicator.

An image processing system in which a portable terminal and an image processing apparatus are capable of communicating with each other contactlessly, includes: the portable terminal apparatus including: a display; and a transmitter that transmits display information indicating what is currently displayed on the display, to the image processing apparatus over contactless communication, and the image processing apparatus including: a receiver that receives the display information from the portable terminal over contactless communication; a memory that records in advance, display information samples and specified operations for the image processing apparatus, with their connections; and a controller that determines an appropriate operation based on the display information received by the receiver, the display information samples recorded in the memory and the specified operations also recorded in the memory, and makes the image processing apparatus perform that determined operation.

A method for configuring a printer comprises printing instructions associated with a set of options on a printer. Input based on the printed instructions is received via an input interface of the printer. The printer is then configured according to the input received. The instructions can correspond to a set of options which are printed with the instructions. The options can correspond to pre-defined settings identified using user-friendly names. In one embodiment, the input is sent to a server that then transmits configuration information to the printer. Upon receipt of the configuration information, the printer configures itself accordingly.

The printing control device of the present invention inquires whether or not an actual output printer driver supports the function of the items regarding drawing processing in step SC1503. If it is found as a result of inquiry in step SC1504 that the printer driver does not support the function, the printing control device processes print data in step SC1506. On the other hand, if the printer driver supports the function in step SC1504, the printing control device determines whether or not the print setting corresponding to the function is enabled in step SC1505. If the printing control device determines that the print setting is disabled, the process advances to step SC1506 and the printing control device processes print data.

The present invention relates to a page printer control method, a page printer therefor, for compressing print data for one page and for storing the compressed data in a memory, so that even when a printing resolution is changed in due to a memory shortage, the resolution can be used for all the pages of a document. According to the present invention, a system for controlling a page printer includes a memory, a controller for drawing print data, a compression circuit for compressing drawing data, an expanding circuit for expanding the compressed data, and a video output circuit for outputting expanded data to the printer engine as a video signal. The controller detects the remaining capacity of the compression data area in the memory, and when a memory shortage is detected, i.e., when insufficient storage capacity is available, the printing resolution is changed and the drawing process is performed, starting at the beginning of the job.

One or more rectangular regions including image objects are extracted from input document image. The input document image is reduced by a desired scale factor, and the extracted rectangular regions are varied in scale by scale factors greater than the desired scale factor. The input document image varied in scale by the desired scale factor and the rectangular region images varied in scale are synthesized and outputted.

A printing image forming apparatus in which a printer driver is installed. The printer driver forms a space in an image of an original document to be printed in which a note is inserted. An inserting device inserts text, images, graphics etc. as the note into the space formed, and a display indicating device displays a formed image on a screen of a display device as a preview. An operator can freely select and set the note by an operation of a button on a UI (User Interface) so as to edit the image of the page.

An image processing apparatus includes a driver control unit configured to perform processing relating to uninstallation or updating of a driver associated with a device, and a relay unit configured to switch a storage destination of device configuration information which has been transmitted from the device associated with the driver to another storage destination in response to switch information, and to store the device configuration information in the other storage destination.

A printing apparatus, or a multifunction peripheral connected via a network, can store images having individual identification (ID). The devices can extract inherent identification (ID) from a document and can retrieve, from a storage device, a pre-stored image having identification (ID) corresponding to the extracted identification (ID), and can compose visualized copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern information on the retrieved image and form a composite image on a recording paper.

A technique of inspecting an input print data file to determine whether or not a printed image has good reproducibility is provided. A content type identification module 321 identifies a content type of each object contained in the input print data file PD0. A characteristic value calculator 322 calculates a characteristic value relating to reproducibility of each object which is pre-selected according to the content type of the object. A characteristic value judgment module 323 determines based on the calculated characteristic value whether or not each object meets a judging condition relating to reproducibility of image portion represented by the object.

The description interpreting unit (101) identifies the format (the Exif, the JFIF and the like) of the image data which is included in the content which is received from the host equipment (10). The image data obtaining unit (103) obtains the image data which is linked to the content from the printing content buffer (102) or the external DB (119). The image judging unit (104) judges the type of the received image file, and notifies the result to the image rasterization unit (105). The image rasterization unit (105) extends the compressed image data. The image processing deciding unit (106) decides parameters for the image processing which is executed by the image processing unit (107). The rendering unit (108) converts the image data to be described by the CMYK color space in order to execute printing. And, the printing unit (109) executes printing.

An information input device includes a display device that displays an information input screen image and a touch-panel that is arranged on the display device and specifies a designated position on the information input screen image. On a function setting area, a plurality of function setting keys are displayed and, if a flick operation to the right made by the input device on the function setting area is detected, detailed setting items corresponding to each of the function setting keys are displayed on a detailed settings area. Consequently, contents of detailed settings can be displayed at one time in correspondence with each of the function setting keys. Therefore, it becomes possible for the user to easily confirm whether or not function setting is appropriate, and to smoothly select a function.

An image forming apparatus includes a data receiving unit for receiving print data from a host device; a job control unit for controlling edition, expansion, and print control of the image data; a data edition unit for editing the print data; a data expansion unit for receiving an analytical result from the data edition unit and generating print image data; and a print control unit for receiving the print image data and controlling a printing unit to perform a printing operation. The data edition unit determines whether a dashed line drawing command exists. When the dashed line drawing command exists, the data edition unit determines a length of a specific portion of a dashed line. When the length of the specific portion is smaller than a specific length, the data edition unit performs a correction process and increases the length of the specific portion up to the specific length.

Descriptions can describe or contain document contents and layout. Some contents can be images and, instead of being included as image data in the description, can be image references. An image reference can be used to obtain an image, in the form of image data, from an image server. A printer can print the document after obtaining needed images from image servers. The image data often contains an image whose resolution does not match the resolution that the printer can properly print in the document. The image server can prepare image data with the correct resolution or can stream image data through a data connection to the printer in a hierarchical image format. A printer can receive a stream of hierarchically formatted image data until a desired resolution is reached and then simply close the data connection to cut off the stream of image data.

On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, which is divided to five areas, that is, a system area, a function selection area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, pieces of information are displayed. Even if an operational mode is switched, the same or similar information is always displayed in the area arranged at the same position. In the task trigger area, software buttons operated by the user for actually operating the image forming apparatus are displayed.

A printer driver causes a printer to print based on print conditions defined before printing starts and a print command asserted by a particular application, and a registry stores a plurality of different print conditions. The plural print conditions stored in the registry are linked to printer paper identification information. The printer driver searches the plural print conditions stored in the registry to find the print conditions corresponding to the same identification information as the printer paper identification information in the print command, changes the preset print conditions according to the found print conditions, and then causes the printer to print.

A method and system for recording electronic documents through a data communication network while assuring that no duplicate “original” documents are in existence. The method and system includes creating an original electronic document that is to be recorded, such as a deed in a real estate transaction. The electronic document is stored on a source computer in an electronic file and, in one embodiment, transmitted to a recordation agency's computer over a data communication network for recordation. Upon submission of the document for recordation, the stored electronic document is designated as a “copy”. A file containing at least the original electronic document is then transmitted from the recordation agency to the source computer and stored thereon or transferred to another medium.

An image forming apparatus includes a power supply control unit that controls switching a power source to an auxiliary power supply that stores therein power from a main power supply when the main power supply is off, and to the main power supply when the main power supply is on; a detection unit that detects whether the power source is the main or the auxiliary power supply; a communication mode control unit that switches a data transfer rate from a first high-speed mode to a first low-speed mode allowing power consumption lower than the first high-speed mode when the power source is the auxiliary power supply; and a print mode control unit that switches a print speed from a second high-speed mode to a second low-speed mode allowing the power consumption lower than the second high-speed mode when the power source is the auxiliary power supply.

An information acquiring unit checks operation command information issued to the multiple information processing apparatuses over the network in order to understand the totality of the operation command information in the network. The state of utilization of each information processing apparatus is analyzed based on the operation command information. Where a utilization state analyzing unit is provided in an information processing apparatus, the utilization state analyzing unit also checks the state of utilization of its own information processing apparatus. Prompt information that prompts the issuance of operation commands to an underutilized information processing apparatus is then issued. Consequently, the level of utilization of that information processing apparatus may be increased.

A port monitor allows a computer, digital camera, or other device to send a print job to a target printer, where the only known information about the printer is its network address. Communication is attempted to the network address, sequentially using each of a plurality of port numbers. If none of the plurality of port numbers is successful in initiating communication to the network address, communication to the network address is attempted using an LPR port number, sequentially using each of a plurality of LPR queue names.

The invention discloses an image formation device and an image formation method. The image formation device comprises a first interface unit, an image formation control unit and a timer, wherein the first interface unit is used for connecting the image formation device and a drive device of the image formation device, the image control unit receives data from the drive device of the image formation device, the control unit proceeds an image processing if the data received is page data, the timer times a duration from the latest time the control unit receives the page data or virtual data, the duration is taken as a first duration, and the virtue data is data used for preventing the image formation device from stopping a current image formation work because data are not received when a first predetermine time is exceeded. According to the image formation device and the image formation method, misjudgment by the image formation device does not occur even under the condition that a rending duration of certain page data is long.

The invention discloses an automatic printing method and system for bus stop sign boards. The automatic printing method includes steps of forming bus routes in a preset area and a bus stop information database corresponding to each bus stop of the line, and presetting template form of the bus stop sign boards; recording the selected bus routes of users and corresponding bus stops thereof in the bus stop information database; and automatically generating printable bus stop sign board pictures by the bus routes and the corresponding bus stops thereof according to the template form. By software, the printable bus stop sign board pictures can be formed automatically according to the selected bus routes or bus stop information, automation printing of the bus stop sign boards is realized, efficiency is improved and labor and material resources are saved. Further, the selected bus routes and the bus stop information can be automatically checked, error rate is decreased, the problems of low efficiency and high error rate in manual printing of the bus stop sign boards are avoided, and centralized management and sign board making are realized.

Provided is an image forming system where a plurality of image forming apparatuses for printing an image on a sheet based on a job, and outputting the image are connected with one another in a communicable manner, including a communication unit to carry out the communication, and a control unit to manage the job, and control the communication unit, where the control unit divides the job for sequentially processing a plurality of steps into a plurality of divided step jobs, executes a former part of the divided step jobs on an image forming apparatus which can execute the former part of the divided step jobs, and reserves a latter part of the divided step jobs on an image forming apparatus which can execute the latter part of the divided step jobs, and is different from the image forming apparatus, thereby enabling efficient execution of the job.