# US 11,310,378 B2 · System and image processing device with evaluation value indication > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,378 B2 - Document ID: US11310378B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/138,333 - Filed: 2020-12-30 - Published: 2021-07-08 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2020-01-08 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Masahiko Takashima; Daisaku Imaizumi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310378B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/0044: {for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet} - H04N 1/00424: {using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar} - H04N 1/00427: {using a menu list (H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence)} - H04N 1/6083: {controlled by factors external to the apparatus} - H04N 1/6013: {by simulating several colour corrected versions of the same image simultaneously on the same picture reproducer} - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A system includes an image processing device connected to a transmission and reception device that communicates with an external device, and a terminal device connected to a display device. The image processing device includes an evaluation value calculation processor that calculates, for each of two or more types of output modes, an evaluation value of output image data when image data is output in the output mode, and an evaluation information transmitter that transmits evaluation information including information based on the evaluation value for each of the output modes, to the terminal device, via the transmission and reception device. The terminal device includes a display controller that performs control of displaying, for each of the output modes, the information based on the evaluation value corresponding to the output mode, on the display device, if the evaluation information is received. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system, comprising: an image processing device connected to a transmission and reception device that communicates with an external device; and a terminal device connected to a display device, wherein the image processing device includes an evaluation value calculation processor that calculates, for each of two or more types of output modes, an evaluation value of output image data when image data is output in the output mode, and an evaluation information transmitter that transmits evaluation information including information based on the evaluation value for each of the output modes, to the terminal device, via the transmission and reception device, and the terminal device includes a display controller that performs control of displaying, for each of the output modes, the information based on the evaluation value corresponding to the output mode, on the display device, if the evaluation information is received, wherein the image processing device further includes an identifier that identifies, for each of the output modes, a block having a large degree of information loss among blocks composed of one or a plurality of pixels of the image data, the evaluation information includes information indicating a block having a large degree of information loss, and the display controller displays, for each of the output modes, a block having a large degree of information loss. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation information includes, for each of the output modes, information relating to reacquisition of the corresponding output image data, the terminal device further includes a reacquisition request transmitter that transmits, based on the information relating to reacquisition of the output image data, a request for reacquiring the output image data, to the image processing device, and the image processing device further includes an output image data transmitter that transmits, if the request is received, the output image data corresponding to the received request, to the terminal device that has transmitted the request. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation information includes a thumbnail image of the output image data for each of the output modes, and the display controller displays, for each of the output modes, the thumbnail image corresponding to the output mode. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the display controller displays, for each of the output modes, information indicating appropriateness of outputting in the output mode. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the image processing device further includes an output mode determiner that determines, based on the evaluation value, which of the two or more types of output modes is the most appropriate as the output mode of the image data, and an output image data transmitter that transmits, to a device specified by a user, the output image data in the most appropriate output mode. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein, if a request for transmitting the evaluation information is received from the terminal device, the evaluation information transmitter transmits the evaluation information. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the image processing device is connected to an input device that reads a document and inputs the document as image data. ### Claim 8 An image processing device connected to a transmission and reception device that communicates with an external device, the image processing device comprising: an evaluation value calculation processor that calculates, for each of two or more types of output modes, an evaluation value of output image data when image data is output in the output mode, and an evaluation information transmitter that transmits evaluation information including information based on the evaluation value for each of the output modes, to another device, via the transmission and reception device, wherein the image processing device further includes an identifier that identifies, for each of the output modes, a block having a large degree of information loss among blocks composed of one or a plurality of pixels of the image data, the evaluation information includes information indicating a block having a large degree of information loss. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The image processing device according to claim 8, wherein the evaluation information includes, for each of the output modes, information relating to reacquisition of the corresponding output image data, and the image processing device further includes an output image data transmitter that transmits, if a request based on the information relating to reacquisition of the output image data is received from the other device to which the evaluation information has been transmitted, the output image data corresponding to the received request, to the other device.