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US 2004/0169877 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus and method for visually displaying image data of various data formats
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuya Sadowara
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Abstract
Image data of various data formats stored in the storage of the MFP can be visually displayed on the display as an image after converting format of image data stored in the storage to a predetermined format by the data format converter.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a storage configured to store an image data of a first format,
- a display configured to display an image based on an image data of a predetermined format, and
- a data format converter configured to convert the image data of the first format stored in the storage to the image data of the predetermined format when the image data in the first format stored in the storage is visually displayed on the display as an image.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a storage means for storing an image data of a first format with an image data format information,
- a display means for displaying an image based on an image data of a predetermined format, and
- a data format converter means for converting the image data of the first format stored in the storage means to the image data of the predetermined format according to the image data format information when the image data of the first format stored in the storage means is visually displayed on the display means as an image.
A method for displaying an image based on an image data of various formats, wherein the image data in a first format is stored with an image data format information in a storage and an image is displayed on a display based on the image data of a predetermined format, comprising:
- discriminating the first format of the image data based on the image data format information,
- converting the image data of the first format to the image data of the predetermined format according to the result of the discrimination, and
- visually displaying the image data of the predetermined format as an image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.