US 7,624,359 B2Granted

Server apparatus for outputting composed image including composed contents such as image and document in template, control method therefor, program for execution thereof by computer, and computer readable storage medium storing the program

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorKikuo Naito

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Abstract

When a user client requests an output of a composed image in which contents such as an image or a document are composed in a frame provided by a printing provider, an instruction for the composition of the contents and the template by a simple operation can be made. A server apparatus of the printing provider stores a table, showing correspondence between numeral keys of the user client and a composing position of the contents to the template or a size change in the contents, in a memory. Based on a mere information on the contents and the numeral keys from the user client, the server apparatus composes and outputs the contents with the template.

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Dependent claims

A print order receiving apparatus for receiving, from a client terminal apparatus, an order for printing an image by composing the image into a template frame, comprising:

first transmitting means for transmitting, to said client terminal apparatus, preview image data of a preview image composed with an area designating frame;
managing means for managing a table which assigns a position designation of the area designating frame to a numeral key of said client terminal apparatus;
obtaining means for obtaining, from said client terminal apparatus, a kind of a numeral key designated by said client terminal apparatus and a number of times the designated numeral key is used repeatedly by said client terminal apparatus;
first generating means for generating print image data by composing a print image corresponding to the preview image into the template frame by performing resizing to a designation position on the basis of an enlargement/reduction ratio designated in accordance with the numeral key of the kind obtained by said obtaining means and the number of times obtained by said obtaining means;
calculating means for calculating a number of composed image pixels on the basis of a standard number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame and the designated enlargement/reduction ratio in accordance with the numeral key of the kind obtained by said obtaining means and the number of times obtained by said obtaining means;
second generation means for generating the preview image, if the number of composed image pixels, calculated by said calculating means, is larger than a predetermined minimum number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame or smaller than the number of pixels of the print image corresponding to the preview image;
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second transmitting means for transmitting the print image data generated by said generating means to a print server apparatus connected to a print apparatus.

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A computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a control program comprising code for causing a computer to execute a control method of a print order receiving apparatus for receiving, from a client terminal apparatus, an order for printing images by composing an image into a template frame, said control program comprising the steps of:

transmitting, to said client terminal apparatus, preview image data of a preview image composed with an area designating frame;
managing a table which assigns a position designation of the area designating frame to a numeral key of said client terminal apparatus;
obtaining, from said client terminal apparatus, a kind of a numeral key designated by said client terminal apparatus and a number of times the designated numeral key is used repeatedly by said client terminal apparatus;
a first generating step of generating print image data by composing a print image corresponding to the preview image into the template frame by performing resizing to a designated position on the basis of an enlargement/reduction ratio designated in accordance with the position assigned by the table to the numeral key of the kind obtained in said obtaining step and the number of times obtained in said obtaining step;
calculating a number of composed image pixels on the basis of a standard number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame and the designated enlargement/reduction ratio in accordance with the numeral key of the kind obtained in said obtaining step and the number of times obtained in said obtaining step;
a second generating step of generating the preview image, if the number of composed image pixels, calculated in said calculating step, is larger than a predetermined minimum number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame or smaller than the number of pixels of the print image corresponding to the preview image;
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transmitting the print image data generated in said generating step to a print server apparatus connected to a print apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.