Image forming apparatus which is capable of displaying real size preview, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994968-B2
Application number	US-201213593543-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2012
Priority date	Aug 31, 2011
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

An image forming apparatus that is capable of displaying a real size preview and reduces user's time and effort required for forming the image on the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a printing unit which forms an image on a recording medium, and a user interface for displaying information to a user. A real size preview image is displayed on the user interface. A display magnification slider is used for enabling a user to change a display magnification of the image displayed on the user interface. A controller unit selects a size of the recording medium on which the image is to be formed, based on the display size changed by the user. A printing unit forms the image on the recording medium having the selected size.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium;
a display unit configured to display information;
a real size preview unit configured to display the image on the display unit in substantially the same size as a size of an image to be formed on a recording medium of a first size by the forming unit;
a first changing unit configured to enable a user to change the display size of the image displayed…

Assignees

• Ikeda Motoki
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Ikeda Motoki

Classifications

• H04N1/32053

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N2201/33321

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00482

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00411 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/32096

  Electricity · mapped topic