Display control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTaisei Fukada, Hideto Kohtani
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Abstract
A plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to a network share an external storage device such as a CDROM with each other to indicate a guidance when a trouble happens. Each image processing apparatus, when the troubles happens, outputs a request for transferring display data corresponding to a type of the trouble to the external storage device. This facilitates changing the guidance displayed. If the image processing apparatuses are used as peripheral units to a plurality of computers, and when a construction of the peripheral unit is varied, a driver program corresponding thereto is transferred to the plurality of computers.
Claims18
A display control method in a system to which an external storage device and a plurality of image processing apparatuses are connected, said method comprising the steps of:
- a) causing said plurality of image processing apparatuses to respectively detect statuses of their own;
- b) outputting automatically a transfer requirement of display data corresponding to a specific status to said external storage device when the specific status is detected in said step a);
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- c) transferring the display data from said external storage device in response to the transfer requirement to a display unit and displaying the display data on said display unit of said image processing apparatus,
- wherein the display data stored in said external storage device are used in common to each of said plurality of image processing apparatuses.
A display control method in a system to which an external storage device and a plurality of image processing apparatuses are connected, each of said image processing apparatuses having a detecting means for detecting a trouble of said image processing apparatus, said method comprising the steps of:
- a) Outputting a transfer requirement of display data indicating a countermeasure corresponding to a detected trouble from an image processing apparatus to said external storage device when said image processing apparatus detects the trouble;
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- b) transferring the display data transferred from said external storage device in response to the transfer requirement to a display unit of said image processing apparatus and displaying the display data on said display unit,
- wherein the display data stored in said external storage device are used in common to each of said plurality of image processing apparatuses.
A display control method of an image processing apparatus, comprising steps of:
- a) detecting a status of said image processing apparatus:
- b) discriminating a type of the status detected in said step a;
- c) transferring a display data corresponding to the status stored into a memory in said image processing apparatus to a display unit when the type of the status discriminated in said step b is a first type, and outputting a transfer requirement of the display data corresponding to the status to said external storage device when the type of the status discriminated in said step b is a second type and transferring the display data transferred from said external storage device to the display unit.
A image processing system comprising:
- a plurality of image processing apparatuses;
- an external storage apparatus;
- wherein each of said plurality of image processing apparatuses includes detecting means for detecting a status of said image processing apparatus;
- communication means for outputting a transfer requirement of display data corresponding to a status detected by said detecting means and receiving the display data transferred from said external storage apparatus;
- and display means for displaying the display data received, and
- wherein said external storage apparatus stores the display data corresponding to various kind of statuses usable in common in said plurality of image processing apparatuses.
A display control apparatus of an image processing apparatus, comprising:
- detecting means for detecting a status of said image processing apparatus:
- discriminating means for discriminating a type of the status detected by said detecting means;
- control means for transferring a display data corresponding to the status stored into a memory in said image processing apparatus to a display unit when the type of the status discriminated by said discriminating means is a first type, and outputting a transfer requirement of the display data corresponding to the status to said external storage device when the type of the status discriminated by said discriminating means is a second type and transferring the display data transferred from said external storage device to the display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.