Host apparatus and screen capture control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10108584-B2
Application number	US-201113137794-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2011
Priority date	Sep 17, 2010
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

A host apparatus which controls screen capture using a web capture application or a capture application, and a screen capture control method thereof. The host apparatus shares capture areas or saved files using a web capture application through which a screen of a web browser is captured and is compatibly saved or using a capture application through which a desktop screen is captured and is compatibly saved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A screen capture control method of a host apparatus, the screen capture control method comprising:
transmitting a request to an image forming device at a power-on of the host apparatus and at predetermined time intervals thereafter, requesting device information of the image forming device, the device information including a size of a recording medium supported by the image forming device;
receiving, from the image forming device, the device information;
displaying, on a display, a shared clipboard of a first capture application to capture a web browser and a second capture application to capture a desktop, the shared clipboard including at least one page area having a size which is proportional to the size of the recording medium supported by the image forming device connected to the host apparatus, based on the received device information;
receiving first captured data via the first capture application and receiving second captured data via the second capture application;
displaying the first and second captured data on a same page area among the at least one page area included in the shared clipboard that is displayed on the display; and
outputting the first and second captured data to the image forming device connected to the host apparatus.

2. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein the first capture application is an application operating with the web browser by using a plug-in.

3. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an entity of another application executed on the host device, and storing the received entity through the shared clipboard.

4. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein when the display includes a plurality of displays, a first shared clipboard of the first capture application is displayed on one of the plurality of displays, and a second shared clipboard of the second capture application is displayed on another one of the plurality of displays.

5. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , further comprising:
outputting the first and second captured data of the shared clipboard to the image forming device in response to a print command.

6. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the first and second captured data on the same page area comprises:
displaying the first captured data in a first section of the same page area, and
displaying the second captured data in a second section of the same page area.

7. The screen capture control method of claim 6 , wherein a size of the first section and the second section are each independently adjustable, such that a user can predict a size of the first section and a size of the second section to be formed on a same recording medium by the image forming device when the first and second captured data are output to the image forming device by the host apparatus.

8. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein
the first captured data corresponds to an image captured from a screen of the web browser, and
the second captured data corresponds to an image captured from a screen of the desktop.

9. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein
the second capture application captures an image from a desktop screen of the desktop, the desktop screen comprising a graphical user interface for an operating system in which selectable icons of objects to execute applications and/or to access folders are displayed in a desktop area of the desktop screen, and in which a toolbar and/or taskbar are displayed in another area of the desktop screen, separate from the desktop area.

10. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an input selecting an open tool of the shared clipboard;
displaying, on the display, thumbnail images corresponding to saved files, in response to the selection of the open tool; and
displaying a thumbnail image selected from the thumbnail images on the same page area including the first and second captured data among the at least one page area included in the shared clipboard that is displayed on the display.

11. The screen capture control method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the second captured data via the second capture application comprises:
capturing an image from the desktop in a first format;
converting the image from the first format into a second format and saving the image in the second format as a file which can be opened, edited, and saved in the shared clipboard of the first application; and
displaying the second captured data comprises displaying the file in the same page area among the at least one page area included in the shared clipboard.

12. The screen capture control method of claim 11 , wherein the first format is a bitmap format and the image in the second format is editable such that text can be added to the image.

13. The screen capture control method of claim 11 , wherein the converting comprises performing an optical character recognition function on the image in the first format to obtain the image in the second format and saving the image in the second format as a text file.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program code of a capture application of a host apparatus, wherein performing the capture application comprises:
transmitting a request to an image forming device at a power-on of the host apparatus and at predetermined time intervals thereafter, requesting device information of the image forming device, the device information including a size of a recording medium supported by the image forming device;
receiving, from the image forming device, the device information;
displaying, on a display, a shared clipboard of a first capture application to capture a web browser and a second capture application to capture a desktop, the shared clipboard including at least one page area having a size which is proportional to the size of the recording medium supported by the image forming device connected to the host apparatus, based on the received device information;
receiving first captured data via the first capture application and receiving second captured data via the second capture application;
displaying the first and second captured data on a same page area among the at least one page area included in the shared clipboard that is displayed on the display; and
outputting the first and second captured data to the image forming device connected to the host apparatus.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the first capture application is an application operating with the web browser by using a plug-in.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the performing of the capture application further comprises:
receiving an entity of another application executed on the host apparatus, and storing the received entity through the shared clipboard.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 , wherein when the display includes a plurality of displays, a first shared clipboard of the first capture application is displayed on one of the plurality of displays, and a second shared clipboard of the second capture application is displayed on another one of the plurality of displays.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the performing of the capture application further comprises:
outputting the first and second captured data of the shared clipboard to the image forming device in response to a print command.

19. A method of controlling an

Assignees

• Song Mi Sook
• Park Dong Chae
• Kang Hyung Jong
• S Printing Solution Co Ltd

Inventors

• Song Mi Sook
• Park Dong Chae
• Kang Hyung Jong

Classifications

• G06F3/1284

  Local printer device · CPC title

• G06F3/1253

  Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client · CPC title

• G06F40/106 Primary

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F9/543

  User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE] · CPC title

• G06F3/1256

  User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks · CPC title