Image Forming Apparatus and Method for Adding Webpage Language Without Updating Controller Firmware
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorNaoki SEKIOKA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a storage device, a webpage generation unit, and a web server. The storage device independently stores controller firmware including a controller program and language firmware including, for each language, a language file and attribute information corresponding to each language. The webpage generation unit reads the language file corresponding to a specified language and the attribute information corresponding to the specified language in the language firmware, and generates webpage data based on the read language file and the read attribute information. The web server transmits, to a web browser, the webpage data generated by the webpage generation unit.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a storage device configured to independently store controller firmware including a controller program, and language firmware including, for each of a plurality of languages, a language file and attribute information corresponding to each of the plurality of languages;
- a webpage generation unit configured to read the language file corresponding to a specified language and the attribute information corresponding to the specified language in the language firmware, and generate webpage data based on the read language file and the read attribute information;
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- a web server configured to transmit, to a web browser, the webpage data generated by the webpage generation unit.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a first storage device configure to store controller firmware including a standard language file;
- a second storage device configure to store an additional language file;
- an arithmetic processing device configure to i) read, from the first storage device, a language file for a standard language specified by a client apparatus, and ii) transmit the read language file for the standard language to the client apparatus, iii) receive a language file for a language different from the standard language specified by the client apparatus, and iv) store, in the second storage device, the received language file for the different language for generating specified webpage data;
- a webpage generation unit configured to read the language file from the second storage device, and generate the specified webpage data based on the read language file;
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- a web server configure to transmit, to a web browser, the specified webpage data generated by the webpage generation unit.
A method for adding a webpage language to an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- storing, independently from one another, controller firmware including a controller program, and language firmware including a language file and attribute information corresponding to each of a plurality of languages;
- reading the language file corresponding to a specified language and the attribute information corresponding to the specified language in the language firmware;
- generating webpage data based on the read language file and the read attribute information;
- transmitting the generated webpage data to a web browser;
- executing an update program;
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- adding the language file for an additional language and the attribute information on the additional language to the language firmware based on the update program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.