Abstract:
Provision is made in electronic document processing systems for printing unfiltered or filtered machine-readable digital representations of electronic documents, and human-readable renderings of them on the same record medium using the same printing process. The integration of machine-readable digital representations of electronic documents with the human-readable hardcopy renderings of them may be employed, for example, not only to enhance the precision with which the structure and content of such electronic documents can be recovered by scanning such hardcopies into electronic document processing systems, but also as a mechanism for enabling recipients of scanned-in versions of such documents to identify and process annotations that were added to the hardcopies after they were printed and/or for alerting the recipients of the scanned-in documents to alterations that may have been made to the original human-readable content of the hardcopy renderings. In addition to storage of the electronic representation of the document, provision is made for encoding information about the electronic representation of the document itself, such as file name, creation and modification dates, access and security information, printing histories. Provision is also made for encoding information which is computed from the content of the document and other information, for purposes of authentication and verification of document integrity. Provision is also made for the encoding of information which relates to operations which are to be performed depending on handwritten marks made upon a hardcopy rendering of the document; for example, encoding instructions of what action is to be taken when a box on a document is checked. Provision is also made for encoding in the hardcopy another class of information: information about the rendering of the document specific to that hard copy, which can include a numbered copy of that print, the identification of the machine which performed that print, the reproduction characteristics of the printer, the screen frequency and rotation used by the printer in rendering halftones. Provision is also made for encoding information about the digital encoding mechanism itself, such as information given in standard-encoded headers about subsequently compressed or encrypted digital information.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes: a reading device that reads a recording file on which a plurality of groups of information of character strings are stored in advance; a displaying device that displays any one group of the plurality of groups of the information of character strings; a selecting device that selects one desired group of information of character strings from the plurality of groups of the information of character strings; and a recording device that records shooting completion information that indicates shooting corresponding to the one desired group of the information of character string has been completed on the recording file, when shooting is performed in a state where the one desired group of the information of character string is selected, wherein when one group of the plurality of groups of the information of character strings is selected and displayed, based on the shooting completion information, the displaying device displays the selected one group of the information of character strings, and a display of completed shooting information that indicates an image corresponding to the selected one group of the information of character strings has been shot together.
Abstract:
A communication device (8802), which can simplify various setting processes, transmits, to a server (8803) via a network, external device information received from an external device (8801) by using proximity wireless communication. The communication device (8802) includes: an antenna (8808) for the proximity wireless communication with the external device (8801); a proximity wireless communication unit (8809) communicating with the external device (8801) via the antenna (8808) to receive the external device information from the external device (8801); an external device storage unit (8813) storing the external device information received by the proximity wireless communication unit (8809); a registration information generation unit (8812) generating registration information to be registered in a database in the server (8803) based on (a) the external device information stored in the external device storage unit (8813) and (b) communication device information including communication device identification information for identifying the communication device (8802); and a server communication unit (8830) transmitting registration information to the server (8803) via the network.
Abstract:
An image reading device is provided. The image reading device includes: a reading unit which reads an original while the reading unit and the original are relatively moved, to produce a plurality of image data based on a plurality of producing conditions, respectively, in response to a reading command input one time, the plurality of producing conditions being different mutually; and a storing unit which stores the plurality of image data produced by the reading unit in a same storing destination.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and an image processing apparatus are disclosed to provide various services to other one or more apparatuses connected thereto via a network. The image forming apparatus includes one or more hardware resources being configured to form an image, one or more programs executing an image formation process, a communication part communicating with a client, an image data conversion part converting a format of image data, and an image processing part, in response to a request from the client, using the image data conversion part to convert a format of image data.
Abstract:
A system and method for automatic creation of digital image albums. A Page Creator Module utilizes a genetic engine and a layout evaluation module. The genetic engine evolves a group of images to a plurality of album pages, based on certain layout criteria. The evaluation module calculates layout criteria and compares them with user preferences. When an acceptable image/page layout has been generated, the image/page assignments are transferred to an Image Placement Module. The Image Placement Module utilizes a second genetic engine, which evolves various criteria to generate page layouts genetic structures. These structures define the location, scale, and rotation of images placed on a given page. A layout evaluation module calculates and compares these layouts with certain other preferences and page requirements. When a suitable layout has been generated, a final album output is generated, which may be displayed, printed, or otherwise transferred for subsequent utilization. ' .
Abstract:
A digital camera includes a memory configured to store image data including thumbnail image data and a display configured to display the thumbnail image data. Further a controller is configured to control the display of the thumbnail image data and to display page data with the thumbnail image data. The page data include data of a currently displayed page and data of a total number of pages, and further an operator can set and reset the number of thumbnail images which form one page. Further, the operator can change this setting of the number of thumbnail images in one page while selecting a specific thumbnail image of a currently displayed page of thumbnail image data. The controller can calculate the total number of pages in a currently displayed page, and can recalculate this data if the number of thumbnail images in a page is reset by an operator. Further, each of the pages can be accessed sequentially and the first and last pages can be viewed as sequential pages. Segment data can also be displayed and can be recalculated if a number of thumbnail images which form one page is reset by a operator.
Abstract:
Procédé automatisé de préparation de livrets à partir de documents numériques associés à ces livrets et devant être préalablement imprimés dans lequel tout d'abord on détermine le nombre de pages du livret à relier à partir de la reconnaissance de premiers signaux de contrôle extraits du document numérique associé, ensuite, si ce nombre est supérieur à un nombre maximal prédéterminé de feuillets pouvant être reliés ensemble, on détermine d'une part le nombre de livrets élémentaires qu'il convient alors de créer pour former le livret à relier et d'autre part le nombre de pages de chacun de ces livrets élémentaires, et enfin on imprime puis on relie séparément et successivement chacun des livrets élémentaires ainsi déterminés. La détermination du nombre de pages de chacun des livrets élémentaires est effectuée à partir de la reconnaissance de seconds signaux de contrôle extraits du document numérique. L'invention concerne également le système automatisé de préparation de livrets associé.
Abstract:
A facsimile is described which when receiving a facsimile message transmitted from a calling facsimile and prints the received facsimile message together with information identifying its local time of receipt. For each page of the facsimile message, the facsimile determines whether the current page of the facsimile message has been completely received and, if so, prints the current page together with a calling subscriber identification (CSI), the local time of receipt and a page number, at the bottom of the page.