US 6,307,540 B1Granted

Image processing system

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsShinobu Arimoto, Masanori Yamada, Katsuichi Shimizu

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Abstract

An image processing system comprises a printer and a reader which are mechanically and functionally separated in such a manner that they can be used independently of each other and the transmission of image information is possible therebetween. Said reader includes an operating unit which cooperates with the printer to perform many functions such as the image operating function, the image transfer function, the presetting function and the image quality processing function, in addition to a function of a conventional copier. Said operating unit consists of a general purpose key portion; a soft key portion which is used for optionally creating the copy transfer functions and having function keys and displays corresponding to said keys, said displays being adapted to display key labels and messages to a user in cooperation with a driver, CPU and controller; and a function key preset key portion which is used for registering, reading and resetting the image transfer functions and having a standard mode return key, preset keys and preset key displays corresponding to said reset keys and adapted to display the reset position.

Claims36

Dependent claims

An operation apparatus comprising:

input means comprising a display unit for selectively displaying plural kinds of parameters necessary for executing a single information processing for an image formed on a sheet, and input units provided correspondingly to said display unit, wherein the number of said input units is smaller than the number of parameters to be displayed on said display unit, wherein said display unit is capable of changing the displayed contents and displaying plural kinds of parameters for the information processing;
memory means for storing a standard parameter group which includes plural kinds of parameters necessary for controlling operation of said apparatus during execution of a single information processing;
register means for registering plural parameter groups, each group including plural kinds of inputted parameters necessary for executing a single information processing by a single input means corresponding to the register means, wherein the plural kinds of parameters of each parameter group are parameters for controlling operation of said apparatus during the execution of the single information processing and for controlling formation of the image;
and
reading means for reading one parameter group selected from the plural parameter groups necessary to execute the single information processing registered by said register means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/432,524Filed 1 May 1995 · division
Priority: JP 57-1729351 Oct 1982
Granted: 23 Oct 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04N 1/00408
Output means: display of information to the user, e.g. menus
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
G06F 3/0238
Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as…:…
G06T 3/02
Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image: affine transformations

Family

Application06/536,982Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Sep 1983
Application07/110,538Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Oct 1987
Application07/566,310Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Aug 1990
Application08/021,721Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Feb 1993
Application08/197,451Parent of this division · filed 16 Feb 1994
US 5,977,954 AParent of this division
Application08/197,451Parent of this continuation
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