Abstract:
An image processing apparatus and method is provided that enables the output of image data in a size suitable for a transmission method that is employed. If electronic mail data is transmitted by electronic mail, a CPU of the image processing apparatus converts read image data into an electronic image file while changing the width thereof according to a predetermined reading image width set by a scanner and transmits the image file as electronic mail data. If electronic image data is transmitted by color facsimile, the CPU provides control such that white pixels are added to the electronic mail data so that the width thereof can be equal to a predetermined image width. By thus changing the width of an image file to be transmitted as an attachment to an electronic mail according to a predetermined image width, an image properly laid out in a proper size can be reproduced at a facsimile receiving side and there is no unnecessary area when the image file is opened at the electronic mail receiving side. This makes it easier to see the area of the original and hence reduces the amount of data.
Abstract:
In a system corresponding to direct printing, even though respective devices have a series of processing functions, high processing performance of the entire system cannot be expected. Accordingly, printing time is longer than that in a system having a personal computer. In a system having a digital camera, a printer and a set top box as a digital broadcast tuner interconnected via a 1394 serial bus, an image processing program necessary for direct printing is downloaded from e.g. the printer to the set top box which lacks an image processing function. Then, time required for data processing on a sample image is calculated at each of processing steps of the image processing, and a device to execute data conversion is determined based on the processing time. By this arrangement, direct printing can be efficiently performed.
Abstract:
In an Internet facsimile apparatus, a facsimile controller temporarily stores data received from a G3 (Group 3) facsimile apparatus or the other terminal unit to communicate with. A packetizer/depacketizer packetizes the data sequentially read out in accordance with size information fed from a size information storage and feeds the resulting packets to a UDPTL controller and a buffer. The packetizer/depacketizer determines whether data received from the other terminal unit and decoded is a response to data sent from the G3 facsimile apparatus or retransmitted data, and delivers a response detection signal representative of the result of decision to the UDPTL controller. In the UDPTL controller, a filtering circuit deletes stored past data in accordance with the response detection signal representative of a response. The apparatus reduces a load on an IP (Internet Protocol) network.
Abstract:
A process for use in an electronic camera generates a digital image signal corresponding to an image incident on an image pick-up unit of the camera, formats the digital image signal in one of a plurality of computer image file formats and stores the formatted image file in a storage device of the camera.
Abstract:
This invention discloses an apparatus for a global network communicator including an application-specific communications device suitable substantially only for global network communications and including a global network application specific user interface, network protocol processing circuitry operative for communication with the global network and for formatting data to a required protocol employed by the global network and for translating data received from the global network to a format acceptable to the user interface, a communication line interface interconnecting the network protocol processing circuitry to the global network and including logical and physical interface apparatus and modulation and demodulation apparatus for information transmitted to the global network and information received from the global network respectively and network access activation circuitry for initiating communication between the communicator and the global network.
Abstract:
A nonvolatile electro-optical read-only memory includes a substrate on which is printed (or otherwise inscribed) a complex symbol or "label" with a high density two-dimensional symbology, a variable number of component symbols or "codewords" per row, and a variable number of rows. Codewords in alternating rows are selected from mutually exclusive subsets of a mark pattern such as a (17,4) mark pattern. The subsets are defined in terms of particular values of a discriminator function, which is illustrated as being a function of the widths of bars and spaces in a given codeword. In the illustrated embodiment, each subset includes 929 available codewords; that, plus a two-step method of decoding scanned data, permitting significant flexibility in defining mappings of human-readable symbol sets into codewords. The memory may be used in conjunction with a scanner and a suitable control system in a number of applications, e.g., robotic operations or automated microfilm searching.
Abstract:
A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
Abstract:
A portable telephone is equipped with a camera and includes an image sensor that is included in the camera and that outputs image data. The portable telephone also includes a processor configured to: (i) associate the image data with position information denoting a position at which the image data is output by the image sensor; (ii) control storage of the image data to a storage medium; (iii) select the image data related to the position information in the storage medium; (iv) acquire information indicating a map based on the position information related to the selected image data; and (v) create textual content to be sent to a destination based on the position information. The portable telephone further includes a communication circuit that sends the textual content, the image data and the information indicating the map to the destination.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method for supplying an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA 91 has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone 1 determines that a maximum speed of communication with the PDA 91 is low, reduces accordingly the amount of moving image data captured by a CCD of the mobile phone, and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA 91. The PDA 91 displays a low-quality moving image 93 on its display unit. When the PDA 91 has a maximum transfer rate of 480 Mbps, the CPU of the mobile phone leaves unchanged the amount of moving picture data captured by the CCD and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA 91. The PDA 91 then displays a high-quality moving image 94 on the display unit. This invention applies advantageously to digital cameras.
Abstract:
A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions which cause an information processor to execute: a first determination processing for determining whether at least one of a first condition, a second condition, and a third condition is established; a first communication processing for receiving input data obtained from an input device and transmitting the input data to an output device, when at least one of the first condition, the second condition, and the third condition is established; and a second communication processing for transmitting instruction information to the input device when none of at least one condition determined in the first determination processing among the first condition, the second condition, and the third condition is established. The instruction information is for instructing the input device to transmit the input data to the output device.