US 5,493,408 AGranted

Image processing system having facilitated communication between an image data transmitter and an image processor

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorsToshio Kurogane, Yuji Hikawa

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Abstract

In an image processing system, a file server, an image processing apparatus and a terminal unit are connected to a network. The image processing apparatus collects information on available functions, the status of the operation for image processing, and the status of failures and consumable supplies, from a detecting unit, thereby creating a status file and registers it in the file server. The user of the terminal unit obtains the status file from the file server and allows it to be displayed on a display device. This enables the user to find out the functions provided by the image processing apparatus, the status of the operation for image processing, the history of failures, and the like. On the basis of this information, the user can create an operation mode file defining specific image processing, and register it in the file server.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An image processing system comprising:

a network;
storage means connected to said network;
an image processing apparatus connected to said network;
and
at least one image data transmitting unit connected to said network to transmit image data and being separate from said storage means,
wherein said at least one image data transmitting unit comprises:
operation mode specifying means for specifying an operation mode of said image processing apparatus;
operation mode file creation means for creating an operation mode file on the basis of the operation mode specified by said operation mode specifying means;
and
operation mode file registration means for registering the operation mode file created by said operation file creation means, in said storage means, and
said image processing apparatus comprises:
image data input means for receiving image data transmitted from said image data transmitting unit;
and
operation mode set means for setting an operation mode for processing the image data received by said image data input means, in accordance with the operation mode file registered in said storage means.

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An image processing system comprising:

a network;
storage means connected to said network;
an image processing apparatus connected to said network;
and
at least one image data transmitting unit connected to said network to transmit image data and being separate from said storage means,
wherein said image data transmitting unit comprises:
detection means for detecting a status of said image processing apparatus;
status file creation means for creating a status file indicating the status of said image processing apparatus, on the basis of information obtained through detection by said detection means;
and
status file registration means for registering the status file created by said status file creation means, in said storage means, and
said image data transmitting unit comprises:
display means;
and
status file displaying means for allowing the status file registered in said storage means by said status file registration means to be displayed on said display means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/022,629Filed 25 Feb 1993
Priority: JP 4-04401428 Feb 1992
Granted: 20 Feb 1996
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

H04N 1/32122
Separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file: in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
G03G 15/502
User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console: relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
G03G 15/5087
Remote control machines, e.g. by a host: for receiving image data
G03G 15/55
Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern: self-diagnostics; Malfunction or lifetime display