Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kunihiko Sakurai

Norio Mizutani

Sadaaki Miyazaki

Kousuke Fukaya

Hiroshi Hattori

Naomi Yamamoto

Non-transitory, computer-readable storage media, terminal devices, and methods are disclosed herein. The terminal device includes a processor and communicates selectively using one of many wireless communication systems comprising a first and second wireless communication system. The computer-readable media store computer-readable instructions therein. The instructions instruct the processor to generate first specific image data representing a first image when the first wireless communication system is specified. The instructions instruct the processor to store the first specific image data when the terminal device receives a first print instruction to print the first image while the first wireless communication system is specified. The instructions instruct the processor to provide first print data, based on the stored first specific image data, to the printing device when the wireless communication setting is changed from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system after storing the first specific image data.

Terminal devices that process image data in different systems based on wireless communication setting, methods of controlling such terminal devices, and media storing computer-readable instructions for such terminal devices

A server provides converted data to an external apparatus in response to plural request commands. The converted data is generated by converting target data and is divided to plural partial data to be stored in an external storage device. The server acquires one or more untransmitted partial data as a portion of the plural partial data from the external storage device each time when one request command is received, and writes the acquired one or more untransmitted partial data in an internal storage device of the server. The server transmits at least a portion of the one or more untransmitted partial data written in the internal storage device, to the external apparatus, each time when one request command of the plurality of request commands is received.

Server

An image processing apparatus implements: receiving a first command for execution of an image processing function; supplying a server with a conversion command if the conversion process should not be executed on the image processing apparatus; acquiring time data indicative of a conversion period of time that the server requires to execute the conversion process; receiving, within the conversion period of time, a second command for execution of an image processing function; starting execution of the second process within the conversion period of time if it is determined that the second process can be completed within the conversion period of time, and failing to start execution of the second process within the conversion period of time if it is determined that the second process cannot be completed within the conversion period of time; acquiring converted data from the server; and executing a prescribed process using the converted data.

Image processing apparatus, including conversion process judging, connectable to server via network

The printing device includes an original data acquiring unit, a first determining unit, a first data generating unit, and a printing unit. The original data acquiring unit is configured to acquire original data representing at least two related objects on a worksheet. The first determining unit is configured to determine whether the at least two related objects are capable of being included in one page. The first data generating unit is configured to generate first data based on the original data. The first data generating unit generates the first data such that the at least two related objects are included in the one page when the first determining unit determines that the at least two related objects are capable of being included in the one page. The printing unit prints an image based on the first data.

Printing device which prints first object and second object on the same page

An image forming apparatus is provided with a data retrieving unit that retrieves index image data and associating file information corresponding files from a recording medium. The index image data and associating tile information are allocated to a plurality of arrangement sections. The index image data and associating file information may be printed on a printing sheet in accordance with a predetermined layout. A judging unit is provided to judge whether the associating file information is less than or equal to a predetermined length, The associating file information which is longer than the predetermined length is normally printed incompletely so as to he printed within the arrangement section. A layout modifying unit is provided to modify the predetermined layout for the arrangement section if the associating file information is longer than the predetermined length so that the associating file information is printed completely on the printing sheet.

Printing index images and file information together

A page description language processing device is provided for supporting a plurality of types of page description languages. In one example, the device may be configured to read a command from data input and determine whether the command should be converted into a common intermediate code. If the judgment unit judges that the command should be converted into the common command, the controller may store a common intermediate command in the intermediate code storage unit. If the judgment unit judges that the command should not be converted into the common command, the controller may store a special intermediate command in the intermediate code storage unit. Additionally or alternatively, the device may execute a common module for the common intermediate command and a special module for the special intermediate command.

Device, method and computer readable medium for processing commands in data described using a page description language

A scanner device may create original data in an internal storage unit. The original data may include header information and actual image data representing a scan target object. The header information may include a first value as size information. The size information may indicate a size of image data corresponding to a scanning direction. In a case where the size of the actual image data is smaller than the first value, the original data may further include specific image data such that the size of entire image data including the actual image data and the specific image data is identical to the first value. The scanner device may calculate a digest value by utilizing the original data so as to create purpose data in an external storage unit by utilizing the original data and the digest value.

Scanner device utilizing an internal storage unit and an external storage unit corresponding to header information

An image forming apparatus is provided with a data retrieving unit that retrieves index image data and associating file information corresponding to files from a recording medium. The index image data and associating file information are allocated to a plurality of arrangement sections. The index image data and associating file information may be printed on a printing sheet in accordance with a predetermined layout. A judging unit is provided to judge whether the associating file information is less than or equal to a predetermined length. The associating file information which is longer than the predetermined length is normally printed incompletely so as to be printed within the arrangement section. A layout modifying unit is provided to modify the predetermined layout for the arrangement section if the associating file information is longer than the predetermined length so that the associating file information is printed completely on the printing sheet.

An image formation device capable of forming a plurality of reduced images on an output medium comprises an input data acquisition unit which acquires input data, a recognizability judgment unit which judges whether each reduced image to be formed corresponding to each piece of input data acquired by the input data acquisition unit is recognizable to a user or not based on the input data and size of the reduced image to be formed, and a reduced image formation unit which forms the reduced images that are judged to be recognizable by the recognizability judgment unit on the output medium while prohibiting the formation of the reduced images that are judged to be unrecognizable by the recognizability judgment unit.

Image formation device and computer-readable record medium

An image generating device for generating a gradation in which the color value changes from a center of the gradation through multiple areas includes an acquisition unit that acquires parameters representing a gradation pattern including the center and shape of the gradation, a symmetry judgment unit that judges whether the gradation symmetry is satisfied (condition that the shape has line symmetry or point symmetry and the gradation center is on a line symmetry axis or at the center of point symmetry), an area determination unit that determines a partial area usable for generating a whole gradation using the gradation symmetry if the gradation symmetry is judged to be satisfied, a drawing unit that draws the gradation in the partial area based on the parameters, and a gradation development unit that develops the drawn gradation into the whole gradation using the gradation symmetry.

Image generating devices and printing devices that generate gradations using symmetry and methods for generating gradations using symmetry

An image forming device includes a printing unit configured to print images on a recording sheet, a page number acquiring unit configured to acquire a common page number which is common among a plurality of files subject to be printed, a page extracting unit configured to extract a page of image from page data contained in each of the plurality of files based on the common page number acquired by the page number acquiring unit, and a print control unit configured to control the printing unit to print a plurality of images respectively extracted from the plurality of files, which are extracted by the page extracting unit, on a page of a recording sheet.

Image forming device and method for laying out and printing pages from multiple files

There is provided a printing device which comprises a print data receiving unit, a transparent property judgment unit, a transparency processing unit, a transparency processing buffer which stores the transparency-processed data generated in the transparency processing, an image data generating unit configured to generate image data based on at least one of the transparency-processed data and the objects, an image data storage control unit, a print engine, and an object placement judgment unit which regards the page memory as a set of bands defined as prescribed areas and judges in which bands each of the objects is to be placed by use of the objects. The transparency processing unit judges whether to execute the transparency processing for a band based on whether the band is judged by the object placement judgment unit to have at least a part of a transparent object.

Transparency and overlay processing for print data

A setup application outputs a settings file in which are entered paper types and cutting modes. A print data generated by a design application is appended with data indicating a cutting mode appropriate to the print data and transmitted to a printer. Upon reception of the print data, the printer prints images on a recording paper based on the print data and cuts the recording paper in the cutting mode indicated by the appended data.

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Kunihiko Sakurai