Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Laurence Crew

Ernest Yiu Cheong Wan

Alan Valev Tonisson

Barry James Drake

Andrew John Shellshear

Jeroen Vendrig

Andrew James Lo

Lachlan James Patrick

Daniel Bradbury

Eileen Oi-Yan Mak

Jeonren Vendrig

Andrew John Whitfield King

An assistance method for selecting a program using a display device () is disclosed. The method () selects one or more attributes associated with a first program, the one or more attributes being selected dynamically by a processor associated with the display device () according to one or more predetermined criteria. The method searches for a second program associated with one or more of the selected attributes. The second program and the one or more attributes associated therewith are displayed on the display device, according to the search for the second program.

Program selecting apparatus and method of controlling program selecting apparatus

A method is disclosed for creating a workflow process. An initial activity () is displayed. The method then displays a user interface diagram (FIG.) to configure a type of an activity to be added to the workflow process in response to a detection of designation of adding the activity. The type of the activity configured in the user interface diagram is then saved and the added activity () whose type is configured is then displayed in the user interface diagram. In another form, the method shows an initial activity in the workflow process, the initial activity having associated therewith a list for selecting a starting activity. A first new activity is then added to the workflow process, the first new activity having associated therewith lists for selecting destination activities for each of a number of outcomes of the first new activity. The list for selecting a starting activity in the initial activity to include the first new activity is then updated. A second new activity is then added to the workflow process, the second new activity having means of selecting a corresponding destination activity for each of a number of outcomes of the second new activity. The list of starting activities in the initial activity and the lists of destination activities in the first new activity are each then updated to include the second new activity.

User interface for workflow builder

Methods and apparatus for variable document printing are disclosed in which a graphical user interface is configured to allow user manipulation of layout rules associated with content containers within a template for variable document generation. One method involves creating a layout for a variable data document based upon a template. The method firstly sets at least one container in the template to form the layout, and then establishes at least one constraint associated with each selected one of at least one feature of the container, the establishing including, for each feature, detecting a user instigated selection of the corresponding feature. The layout is then modified to thereby generate the document by placing content into the containers, wherein at least one dimension of the least one container and/or a position of the at least one container in the layout are varied based on a property of the placed content on a condition that each constraint in the layout is satisfied.

User interface for creation and editing of variable data documents

A method () of displaying a plurality of images is disclosed. The method () displays the images in a stack arrangement. The stack may be a perspective stack and a non-perspective stack. Another method () of displaying a plurality of images is also disclosed. The method () displays the images in a stack following any arbitrary path. The methods () and () are particularly advantageous for displaying a collection of images of irregular sizes and aspect ratios. The methods () and () maintain the regular geometric layout of a stack of images and also ensure that the size of the minimum visible area of each image in the stack remains the same irrespective of the aspect ratio of a particular image.

Displaying a plurality of images in a stack arrangement

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Laurence Crew