Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigetada Kobayashi

Makoto Takaoka

Susumu Sugiura

Mitsumasa Sugiyama

Yoshinobu Mita

Junichi Shishizuka

Yasuhiko Hashimoto

Toyokazu Uda

Kazuhiro Saito

Osamu Yamada

Yoshikazu Yokomizo

Yasuo Fukuda

Masanari Toda

Yukari Toda

Tsutomu Negishi

Kentaro Matsumoto

Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Yoji Kaneko

Yukari Shimomura

Katsutoshi Hisada

Kiyoshi Kusama

Shigeki Yamada

Hiroshi Ohwada

There is disclosed a control apparatus for a scanner/printer including a unit for generating print data described in a page description language, a unit for generating a command regarding a scanner for scanning an original image, and a unit for producing the print data and the command regarding the scanner to a common device through a network.

Control apparatus for a scanner/printer

A printer server connectable to a plurality of printers includes a receiver for receiving print data from an external apparatus, a first discrimination unit for discriminating a representation by which the received print data is described, and a selection unit for selecting, from the plurality of printers, a printer to print an image corresponding to the received print data. A second discrimination unit of the printer server discriminates whether the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation. When the selected printer is not capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation, a controller of the printer sever converts the received print data into print data in another representation and transmits the print data in the other representation. The controller transmits print data in the discriminated representation when the selected printer is capable of processing print data in the discriminated representation. The apparatus also includes a status receiver for receiving, from the selected printer, status information indicating that transmitting print data has been printed normally. A status sending unit of the apparatus sends the status information to the external apparatus.

Printing apparatus and printing method for converting print data to a representation supported by a selected printer

To make it possible to process or retrieve a recorded image in accordance with the location where the image is recorded and record digital image data together with GPS information when capturing a digital image by a video camera. Moreover, when GPS information cannot be captured, GPS information of a certain time before is captured. Furthermore, a system is disclosed which accesses the internet in accordance with the captured GPS information.

Communication apparatus and method that link a network address with designated image information

An input/output apparatus is connected to a plurality of host computers via a network and executes both a scanning function and a printing function. The apparatus includes a portion that generates image data from data input from a first one of the host computers and prints the generated image data by executing the printing function, and further includes an output device that scans image data by executing the scanning function and outputs the scanned image data to a second one of the host computers in response to a request command. As a result, the input/output apparatus may operate in coordination with a plurality of personal computers by using the network to transfer image data therebetween.

Input/output apparatus connected to a plurality of host computers via a network

A system enables the reading characteristic of an image reader in a network to be recognized by a host computer. The SP server device transfers the reading characteristics of a plurality of scanner printers to a designated client host computer and through a network.

Server device and image processing device

There is disclosed an information input/output control device and a method therefor which displays a list of identification informations indicating an information terminal device with which a functional operation can be executed in response to an acquired environmental information of the information terminal device and in accordance with an input of an indication information which instruct to execute the functional operation.

Information input/output control apparatus and method for indicating

A variety of parameters for a scanner printer are set from a host computer on a network by arranging a scanner printer server system composed of the host computer and the scanner printer server connected to the network, and a scanner and a printer connected to the scanner printer. The scanner printer server system has a bidirectional communication channel formed between the scanner, the printer and the scanner printer server, wherein characters, graphics and a method of transferring image are instructed from the host computer and the data is transferred by the instructed transference method.

Scanner printer server

There is disclosed an information device and an information processing method which determine whether a control code constituting a document information is processable or not, transfer the document information to the other information processing device connected with the information processing device when the control code was determined to be unprocessable, and has the other information processing device executed as proxy for the original information processing device to produce an output information from the document information.

Information processing device and information processing method

When a document sheet image is stored in a storage medium, characters are recognized for the document sheet image to detect character codes and position information. The detected character codes and position information and the document sheet image are stored in the storage medium. When a desired image is retrieved from the storage medium and displayed on a display unit and a desired area on the display screen is designated, character codes of the characters contained in the image of the designated area are outputted in accordance with the coordinate information of the designated area and the stored coordinate information of the characters.

Image filing apparatus having a character recognition function

Scanner printer server for selectively controlling a scanner and a

The invention concerns a color image communication apparatus, which comprises scan conversion means for converting n-level image data received in a raster scan system via a communication line to data in a shuttle scan system, multi-level conversion means for converting color n-level data obtained from the scan conversion means for multi-level data, and color conversion means for converting color characteristics of multi-level data obtained from the multi-level conversion means from color characteristics for a communication line to color characteristics of output color recording means. The invention also concerns a color image communication apparatus, which comprises means for generating shuttle system color signal, color conversion means for converting the color signal to signal matched to standard color characteristics for a communication line, n-level conversion means for converting the converted color signal from the color conversion means to n-level signal, and means for performing data scan conversion of the n-level data from shuttle scan system to raster scan system and sending out the raster scan system n-level data to the communication line.

Color image communication apparatus and method having two modes

An image processor performs a processing method which includes (a) reading out hierarchical-encoded binary image data stored in a storing medium, (b) decoding the binary image data read out in the step (a), (c) performing a multi-level generation to the binary image data decoded in the step (b), and (d) causing a display device to display an image, on the basis of the data decoded in the step (b) or the data multi-level generation processed in the step (c), wherein, in a case of causing the display device to display the image on the basis of data having a resolution which is higher than the resolution of the display device, the image is displayed in the step (d) after the binary image data is multi-level generation processed in the step (c), thereby preventing deterioration of the image when the image data stored in the storing medium is output.

Image processing method

There is disclosed an information input/output control device and a method for controlling the same which supervises a working condition of an information terminal device connected to the information input/output control device under a network circumstance executing various functional operations, memorizes status informations in a manner enabling to be restarted and executes the functional operations in the information terminal devices other than the preceding one in response to an input of an operation cease information of the preceding information terminal device.

Information input/output control device and method therefor

Scanner printer server and method for selectively outputting scanned

A color image communication apparatus can switch between a copy mode and a communication mode. In the communication mode, color space standardization conversion of objective color image data is performed, while in the copying mode, color space standardization conversion of the objective image data is not performed.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigetada Kobayashi