Minolta Company, Ltd.

Hideyuki Kanbayashi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tadashi Ohira

Takashi Kondo

Keizou Ochi

Takashi Iida

A portable terminal receives document data from a data transmission device, separates character area and non-character area from the received document data, designates a display method for data in correspondence with each area, and outputs to display the document data as a non-character display data and a text data on the screen of the display unit according to the designated display method.

Separation, transmission and display of character and non-character data

An image output system having an image output device for performing a specified output process with respect to image data, and an image input device for providing the image data via reading an image from a document, or via an external device. Both the image input device and image output device have controllers for controlling the respective devices. The controller of the image output device outputs a reset signal to the system controller of the image input device when a response from the controller of the image input device is not appropriate, and continues to output the reset signal until a predetermined time elapses and the response from the controller of the image input device is judged to be appropriate.

Image output device

The present invention provides an image reading device and image reading method which reduce the total reading time and do not produce color drift when reading a plurality of documents comprising a mix of color and monochrome documents. The present invention provides for reading all documents by moving the documents during reading past a fixed position reader. If the documents are determined to be color documents, the documents are read by moving the reader during reading past fixed position documents. The present invention also provides an image forming apparatus, which reduces the total reading time when reading a mix of color and monochrome documents. The present invention additionally provides a computer program product for use in an image reading system to operate the system in the prescribed manner.

Image reading device, an image reading method, a computer program product for storing an image reading sequence, and an image forming apparatus

A copying system consisting of a scanner and a printer which are directly connected, including a printer controller controlling a printer engine based on data received from an external computer via a network line, an interface switching unit switching the occupancy of the printer engine between the printer controller and the scanner, and a controller that makes the printer controller occupy the printer engine by means of controlling the interface switching unit when a trouble occurs while the printer engine is occupied by the scanner.

Storage medium, system and method for image forming and copying

An image sensing device that provides image data to an external device adjusts the resolution at which the image is sensed in accordance with format requirements of the external device. The format requirements of the external device can be automatically detected, or entered by a user. The operating parameters of a line sensor, to scan the image in a subscanning direction, are varied in accordance with the format requirements. These operating parameters can be the integration cycle of the sensor, and/or the speed at which the image is optically scanned past the sensor.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Hideyuki Kanbayashi