Abstract:
Device abstraction units 28a and 28b respectively transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from devices 34a and 34b, and carry out abstraction of the devices 34a and 34b (that is, abstraction of the hardware) with respect to upper constituents. Interface units 22a and, 22b transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from the device abstraction units 28a and 28b, and provide an application unit 20 with an identical interface. Communications path abstraction units 24a and 24b carry out abstraction of communications paths 26a and 26b in the process of transmission of various pieces of control information and data via the communications paths 26a and 26b across a process boundary or a network boundary. This arrangement of the present invention enables a substantially fixed control according to an applications program, regardless of the type of the device or the type of the communications path.
Abstract:
A system for monitoring an imaging job in a computer system is disclosed. The system includes a computing device and an imaging device in electronic communication with the computing device. Executable instructions are configured to send an imaging job to an imaging device. A background process is created for monitoring the status of the imaging job. The background process is initiated by a despooling subsystem. The network address of a computing device is obtained. A status message is sent to the computing device using the network address. The status message is received by the background process.
Abstract:
An image processing system includes an image scanning device that outputs via a network, scanned image information obtained by scanning an image of an original document, an image output device that visibly outputs remote image information input from a remote device, and an information processing device that accepts an input of the scanned image information from the image scanning device and that outputs the scanned image information to the image output device. A hub connects the image scanning device, the image output device and the information processing device to the network so that data can be exchanged by a common protocol. The image scanning device includes a port for connecting the image output device, a port for connecting the information processing device and a controller that analyzes destination information of data input from the ports and switches connections of the ports in accordance with the destination information.
Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, a read section inputs image data of an original document including a plurality of character strings indicating document receivers. A control section extracts character strings from an image data of the document and recognizes the document receivers by the character string data. The control section converts the character string data in the image data such that a display format of a character string representing one receiver is different from a display format of character strings representing the other receivers, to thereby obtain new image data addressed to the individual receivers. This apparatus has a printing section, a communication section performing facsimile communications, and another communication section performing network communications, and the control section controls these sections such that for one receiver, one of these sections outputs the newly obtained image data addressed to this receiver.
Abstract:
To detect facsimile calls that are initiated manually by a user, a method is used that utilizes the detection of a called (CED) tone generated by a receiving facsimile machine. The detection is performed by a signal processor. Once the detection is made, the facsimile call is transmitted using an appropriate protocol.
Abstract:
Provided is an image processing system having a camera section and a main body section which are separable one from the other in which three separate exclusive buses are used for data communication between the camera section and the main body section, the three separate exclusive buses being: a first exclusive bus for transferring from the camera section to the main body section image data to check a subject on a display unit of the main body section before an image to be recorded is picked up on the main body section side; a second exclusive bus for transferring the image file to be recorded on the main body section side from the camera section to the main body section; and a third exclusive bus for transferring control data between the camera section and the main body section.
Abstract:
A photo-direct printer apparatus which prints an image on the basis of image data from a digital camera, memory card, or PC serving as an image data source receives a control command from the image data source, interprets the control command, and receives image data from the image data source on the basis of the command. The printer apparatus decodes and processes the received image data, and generates and prints print data and print an image based on the print data.
Abstract:
A document transmission apparatus reduces troublesome labor of an operator when transmitting document data, inputted from a scanner or the like, by various transmission methods such as electronic mail, facsimile, remote printing and file transfer. An address book containing a receiver and a plurality of transmission methods for transmitting document data to the receiver is generated. Upon transmission instruction, an appropriate transmission method is selected by the receiver, then document data is converted into data of an appropriate data format, and the converted data is transmitted. Further, a notice of transmission indicating that the document data has been transmitted is transmitted to the receiver of the document data by a method different from the transmission method of the document data. Thus, the document data can be reliably delivered to the receiver.
Abstract:
When a digital camera 100 is connected to an information processing apparatus 101 so that they can communicate with each other, the digital camera 100 generates partial information of attribute information related to each image data stored in the camera 100, and transmits the partial information of the attribute information to the information processing apparatus 101.
Abstract:
A digital imaging apparatus and a method for selecting a data transfer mode thereof is disclosed. The digital imaging apparatus comprises a main storage unit for storing a firmware for at least two data transfer modes for transmitting image data acquired through a camera to an external device in different manners, respectively, and also storing a descriptor including information for identifying the firmware, a mode selection unit for outputting a mode selection signal for a certain transfer mode for the at least two data transfer modes, a transmitting module for connecting to the external device to transmit the image data to the external device, the transmitting module sending the image data in different data transfer manners for each data transfer mode, and a controlling unit which controls the transmitting module so as to set the transfer type corresponding to the selected certain transfer mode if the mode selection signal is received from the mode selection unit, and reads out descriptor of firmware corresponding to the selected transfer mode from the main storage unit and provides the descriptor to the transmitting module if the transmitting module is connected to the external device. Therefore, the digital imaging apparatus can efficiently perform communications with the external device by selecting a mode for execution before being connected to the external device.