Information processing apparatus and image processing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9826111-B2
Application number	US-201615060765-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2016
Priority date	Mar 16, 2015
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition control unit that acquires a plurality of image data sets of an image to be displayed in a plurality of different data formats using an image acquisition unit that acquires image data, and a determination unit that determines one image data set to be displayed by an image display unit from among the plurality of image data sets acquired in the plurality of different data formats by the acquisition control unit based on the image display unit that will display the image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a hardware memory that contains instructions, which when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
acquire, using an image acquisition device, a plurality of different image data files from a same document to be displayed, wherein each different image data file among the plurality of different image data files is acquired from the image acquisition device in a different image data format, in response to a single operation received from a user at the information processing apparatus; wherein each different image data file among the plurality of image data files contains data corresponding to a same portion of the document to be displayed; and
determine, from among the acquired plurality of different image data files, one image data file to be displayed by an image display device, based on the image display device that will display the one image data file.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image acquisition device is an image forming apparatus having a plurality of functions including scanning and copying; and
wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to send an image data acquisition request to the image forming apparatus to acquire the plurality of different image data files from the same document to be displayed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
when the image forming apparatus receives the image data acquisition request from the information processing apparatus, the image forming apparatus determines whether the image data acquisition request is for acquiring image data to be sent to an apparatus other than the information processing apparatus; and
when the image data acquisition request is for acquiring image data to be sent to an apparatus other than the information processing apparatus, the image forming apparatus generates the plurality of different image data files and sends the generated plurality of different image data files to the information processing apparatus.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein, in response to the single operation received from the user at the information processing apparatus, a plurality of image data acquisition requests are sent to the image forming apparatus to acquire the plurality of different image data files from the same document to be displayed, each image data acquisition request among the plurality of image data acquisition requests corresponding to a different data format.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to accept from a user, a projection image acquisition request for acquiring a projection image to be projected by the image display device;
wherein the image display device is an image projection apparatus; and
wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to acquire the plurality of different image data files after the projection image acquisition request is accepted.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
analyze information relating to characters included in image data from the same document to be displayed, the image data from the same document to be displayed being acquired in a predetermined data format;
acquire the image data from the same document to be displayed in the predetermined data format using the image acquisition device, and determine whether to acquire the plurality of different image data files based on the information relating to the characters included in the image data acquired in the predetermined data format.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
assign a priority order to each of the plurality of different image data files;
wherein the priority order is assigned based on at least one of image format information, resolution information, color depth information, color mode information, and data size information of the plurality of different image data files.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
merge each image data file among the plurality of different image data files into a single file.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
sequentially transmit each image data file among the plurality of different image data files to the image display device until an image data file in a data format compatible with the image display device is transmitted to the image display device; and
determine the image data file in the data format compatible with the image display device as the one image data file to be displayed by the image display device.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
acquire information relating to a data format compatible with the image display device;
determine the one image data file to be displayed by the image display device from among the plurality of different image data files based on the acquired information relating to the data format compatible with the image display device.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
generate one image data file in a data format compatible with the image display device based on at least one image data file among the acquired plurality of image data files, in a case where the acquired plurality of image data files does not include image data in the data format compatible with the image display device.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to acquire, using the image acquisition device, the plurality of different image data files from a same page of the same document to be displayed, wherein each image data file among the plurality of different image data files acquired from the same page of the same document to be displayed is acquired in a different data format.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a TIFF image file and a JPEG image file are included among the plurality of different image data files.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of different image data files includes a first image data file in a first file format that is not displayable by the image display device and a second image data file in a second file format that is displayable by the image display device.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image acquisition device is an image forming apparatus having a plurality of functions including scanning and copying;
wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the hardware processor to:
display a setting screen that includes (i) a setting field, (ii) a first button for causing the image forming apparatus to perform a normal scanning process, and (iii) a second button for causing the image forming apparatus to generate the plurality of different image data files from the same document to be displayed;
cause the normal scanning process to execute when the first button is pressed, and cause the image forming appa

Assignees

• Suzuki Junji
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Suzuki Junji

Classifications

• H04N1/00267 Primary

  with a viewing or projecting apparatus, e.g. for reading image information from a film (H04N1/00262 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N2201/0094

  Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception · CPC title

• H04N1/00456

  for layout preview, e.g. page layout · CPC title