Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc.

Jun Kuroki

Masahiro Ozawa

Hiroshi Nogawa

Fumihito Akiyama

Yasufumi Aoyama

Yoshinori Tanaka

Takahisa Matsunaga

Kunikazu Satou

Yasutaka Shimohara

Yoko Fujiwara

Kunikazu Sato

Tetsuren Ri

An information processing apparatus processes an electronic document including operation target data items. The electronic document is controlled by a processor performing an interpreter module which includes a first acquisition instruction for acquiring edit information, a second acquisition instruction for acquiring relevance information, and a generation instruction for generating electronic data from the electronic document based on the edit information and the relevance information. The relevance information includes first selection information for selecting some operation target data item, and second selection information for selecting another operation target data item. The electronic data includes first display data which is displayed based on the some operation target data item, and second display data which is displayed based on the another operation target data item in order that easy-to-read performance of the second display data is decreased to be lower than the first display data.

Information processing apparatus

Disclosed is an information added document preparation device including: a selection unit configured to select an addition format to be used when predetermined additional information is added to an original document; and an information adding unit configured to prepare a document in which the predetermined additional information is added to the original document in the addition format selected by the selection unit, wherein the selection unit selects the addition format in which the document prepared by the information adding unit satisfies a predetermined layout condition, among a plurality of addition formats which are previously prepared.

Information added document preparation device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and information added document preparation method for selecting a format for adding information to a document to satisfy a layout condition

A method for processing an electronic document (ED) using a page rendering device (PRD), including: identifying, within the ED, a slide including an animation sequence of a plurality of objects; generating, based on the slide, a first frame lacking the animation sequence and including a first object of the plurality of objects; generating, based on the slide, a second frame lacking the animation sequence and including a second object of the plurality of objects; and placing, by the PRD and during a rendering the ED, the first frame on a first page.

Image processing device

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus includes a plurality of control sections each of which performs analysis processing of analyzing data of page description language form to generate intermediate language data and rendering processing of generating rendering data based on the intermediate language data generated by the analysis processing, the plurality of control sections capable of performing the analysis processing and the rendering processing parallelly with each other; and a storage section which stores the intermediate language data and the rendering data, and at least any one of the plurality of control sections obtains information with regard to a vacant capacity of the storage section, and at least any one of the control sections discontinues the analysis processing being performed by at least any one control section and performs the rendering processing based on the information with regard to the vacant capacity of the storage section and a predetermined set value.

Image processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium storing program and image processing method

Disclosed is a print data generation device comprising: a storage unit including: a region in which there are temporarily stored data in an intermediate language format between data in a page description language format and print data, and the print data to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format; and a rasterization region for use at a time when rasterization processing in which the print data is to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format is executed; and a control unit that includes a plurality of arithmetic operation parts, sets arithmetic operation parts which execute the rasterization processing based on a status of use of the arithmetic operation parts and a status of a free region of the storage unit, and executes the rasterization processing for each of the set arithmetic operation parts.

Print data generation device, print data generation method and computer-readable medium for controlling rasterization processing

A method for generating a hardcopy document, including: receiving, by a printer, a direct print request for an Office Open XML (OOXML) document having a plurality of pages; identifying, by the printer, a tag in the OOXML document specifying a multiple page printing feature (MPPF) for the plurality of pages, where the tag is located within a settings.xml file of the OOXML document; identifying, by the printer, a first printer setting required to implement the MPPF; invoking, by the printer, the first printer setting on the printer; and generating, by the printer and from the OOXML document, the hardcopy document with the MPPF feature after invoking the first printer setting.

Printer for receiving direct printer requests and mapping features of the requests to required settings

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: a control section including a plurality of operation units; and a nonvolatile storage section to store a program to execute analysis processing and rendering processing by a control of the control section, the analysis processing analyzing page description language format data to generate intermediate language format data by the band, and the rendering processing generating rendering data based on the generated intermediate language format data, wherein the control section assigns the operation units the analysis and rendering processing to be executed, based on the stored program, wherein at least one of the operation units is capable of executing the analysis and rendering processing, and wherein when the operation unit is executing one of the analysis and rendering processing, and when an event which suspends the processing being executed occurs, the operation unit executes the other processing.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which generates print data based on control data for page print inputted from an external device and which forms an image based on the print data. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit having a plurality of arithmetic processing units, and an image forming unit for forming an image based on the print data which is outputted by the control unit. The control unit generates the print data by carrying out a rasterizing process of one page in band unit constituted by a predetermined number of lines based on the control data for page print and sequentially outputs the generated print data at output timings defined in a constant output interval, wherein the rasterizing process is controlled based on whether or not generation of print data is to be completed within the output interval for all of bands in the one page.

Image forming apparatus including a control unit that generates print data by carrying out a rasterizing process based on a display list, and computer readable recording medium

There is described a file editing apparatus, a file editing method and a file editing program, each of which makes it possible not only for the user to edit an XPS file easily and conveniently, but also for plural users, respectively located at different sites, to issue instructions for editing the same XPS file from the different sites at a time. The apparatus includes: a receiving section to receive a print job; a parsing section to parse the print job, so as to read file editing instruction information attached to the print job; and a file editing section that decompresses an XPS file to edit the XPS file decompressed, and then, compresses the XPS file after editing, so as to create an edited XPS file. Accordingly, the apparatus also makes it possible to edit the XPS file, irrespective of the OS or the environment of the application program currently executed.

File editing apparatus, file editing method and file editing program

Disclosed is an image formation apparatus, comprising: a reception section to receive PDL data; an image processing section including a plurality of operation sections, each of which executing a task performing processing by a page or a task performing processing by a band to generate printing data based on the PDL data; a control section to analyze the PDL data to obtain the number of printing pages, the control section dynamically setting the number of the operation sections assigned to each of the task performing the processing by the page and the task performing the processing by the band in accordance with the obtained number of the printing pages; and a printing section to form an image on a printing medium based on the generated printing data.

Image formation apparatus, printing data generation apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and printing data generation method

The image processing apparatus includes: a storage section including a region to be used when rasterization processing is performed with respect to intermediate language form data created by a band based on page description language form data; a plurality of operation sections; and a control section to perform the rasterization processing with respect to the intermediate language form data by using the operation sections. The control section generates a plurality of segmented regions by dividing the band constituting each pieces of the intermediate language form data into a plurality of pieces based on the number of the operation sections, and assigns a segmented region for executing the rasterization processing among the segmented regions to each of the operation sections.

Image rasterization processing apparatus using intermediate language form data, computer-readable recording medium storing program and image processing method

There is described an image forming apparatus, which make it possible to appropriately print each of a valid print object and an invalid print object. The apparatus includes: a printing section to conduct a printing operation based on the print data, so as to create the print product; and a control section to determine whether the digital signature is valid or invalid so as to control the printing operation, based on the determined result. When the plurality of print objects includes both a valid print object for which the digital signature is determined as valid and an invalid print object for which the digital signature is determined as invalid, the control section controls the printing operation, so as to enable the valid print object to be printed, based on the print data, while disable the invalid print object to be printed, based on the print data.

Image forming apparatus, method and control program, for enabling image formation of a valid print object while disabling image formation of an invalid print object on a page including a plurality of print objects

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a communication section connected to a data processing apparatus through a communication line to perform image formation on the basis of data transmitted from the data processing apparatus through the communication section, the apparatus including: a plurality of storage sections each of which has a different free storage capacity and a different access speed; and a control section to obtain data size information of an XPS file from the XPS file including the data size information thereof in a head of a file data frame, the XPS file being received from the data processing apparatus through the communication section, to select a storage section to store the XPS file from the plurality of storage sections on the basis of the data size information, and to allow the selected storage section to store the XPS file.

Image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium

An image forming apparatus that executes an image forming process based on print data including an execution command of transparency processes to be executed, comprises: a first storage unit to be used when the transparency process is executed; and a control unit for controlling the first number of transparency processes to be executed when a storage capacity of the first storage unit is insufficient to execute the transparency processes to be executed, and causing a display unit to display a preview image to which the second number of executable transparency processes different from the first number has been executed to determine an image being an object for print output based on an instruction by an operator relating to which transparency process is executed.

Image forming apparatus, computer readable storage medium and image formation processing method

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage section to store data; and a control section to detect whether a data access to the storage section exists or not, to detect whether unnecessary data stored in the storage section exists or not, and to overwrite/delete the unnecessary data in a case where the data access does not exist and the unnecessary data exists.

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