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Information processing apparatus that displays a print setting screen based on information of a printing apparatus in a format interpretable in a first program layer and processing method thereof

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsNaoki Sumi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Kiyoshi Umeda

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Abstract

An embodiment of this invention solves memory shortage that occurs in enlargement processing of an image because a web application holds data of an image or the like not as binary data but as character string data. In the embodiment, a processor in an information processing apparatus executes a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor in the following way. That is, the first program layer draws an image, and divides and enlarges the drawn image using a memory. Image data of each of a plurality of images obtained by the division and enlargement is output from the second program layer to an external device.

Claims25

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus for executing, by a processor, a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set compiled in advance by a unit other than the processor, comprising:

a display control unit configured to display a print setting screen provided by the program, on a display unit;
a generation unit configured to generate print data, based on print setting information set by using the print setting screen displayed on the display unit;
an obtaining unit configured to obtain information of a printing apparatus in a format interpretable in the first program layer;
and
a transmission control unit configured to transmit the print data to the printing apparatus,
wherein the display control unit displays the print setting screen on the display unit, based on the information of the printing apparatus in the format interpretable in the first program layer,
the first program layer uses image data of a text format,
the second program layer uses image data of a binary format, and
the display control unit, the generation unit, the obtaining unit and the transmission control unit are implemented by the processor.

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Facts

Application: 15/584,209Filed 2 May 2017 · continuation
Priority: JP 2014-13517930 Jun 2014
Published: US 2017/0235533 A117 Aug 2017
Granted: 14 Apr 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06F 3/1256
Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client: user feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
B41J 2/04501
By pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers: control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits
B41J 2/4155
By passing charged particles through a hole or a slit: for direct electrostatic printing [DEP]
G06F 3/122
Reducing or saving of used resources, e.g. avoiding waste of consumables or improving usage of hardware resources: with regard to computing…

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Application14/743,459Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Jun 2015
US 2017/0235533 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Aug 2017
US 9,671,984 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0378643 A1Published application
US 10,620,892 B2This patent

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