US 8,274,689 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and method for acquiring and outputting an image

AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAyumi Itoh, Jun Kunioka, Hidetaka Iwai, Mitsuharu Nagai

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Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a display; a memory for storing first information indicating an acquisition source of image data, second information indicating an editing process of the image data and third information indicating an output destination of the image data associated with one another as a setting information group; an accepting unit for accepting the first information to the third information; a display control unit for displaying images used for accepting the first information to the third information on a first area to a third area, respectively, of the display; and a registration unit for, when the accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering the at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as the setting information group in the memory.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An image processing apparatus comprising:

a display;
an accepting unit including:
a first accepting unit for accepting an input of first information indicating an acquisition source of an image;
a second accepting unit for accepting an input of second information indicating an editing process of said image;
a third accepting unit for accepting an input of third information indicating an output destination of said image;
a display control unit for causing said display to concurrently display first, second and third mutually exclusive areas corresponding to the first, second, and third accepting units, respectively, so that said first, second and third mutually exclusive areas are arranged relative to one another in a sequence the corresponds to an input operation by a user sequentially inputting the first information to the third information, wherein said first area displays at least one icon that is selectable by a user to designate said first information, said second area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said second information and said third area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said third information;
a memory for storing selected first information to third information;
a registration unit for, when said first accepting unit to said third accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering said at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as a setting information group in said memory;
and
a reading unit for reading said setting information group from said memory in response to a reading instruction,
wherein, when said setting information group is read by said reading unit, said display control unit causes said first area to display said first information, said second area to display said second information and said third area to display said third information.

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An image processing method in an image processing apparatus, said image processing apparatus including a display, a memory, and a processor, said image processing method comprising the steps of:

a first accepting step of accepting an input of first information indicating an acquisition source of an image by a first accepting unit;
a second accepting step of accepting an input of second information indicating an editing process of said image by a second accepting unit;
as third accepting step of accepting an input of third information indicating an output destination of said image by a third accepting unit;
a display controlling step of causing said display to concurrently display first, second and third mutually exclusive areas corresponding to said first, second and third accepting units respectively, so that said first, second and third mutually exclusive areas are arranged relative to one another in a sequence that corresponds to an input operation by a user sequentially inputting the first information to the third information, wherein said first area displays at least one icon that is selectable by a user to designate said first information, said second area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said second information, and said third area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said third information;
when accepting at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information in said first to third accepting steps, registering said at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as a setting information group in said memory;
and
a reading step of reading said setting information group from said memory in response to a reading instruction, wherein
when said setting information group is read by said reading step, said display controlling step further including the step of causing said first area to display said first information, said second area to display said second information and said third area to display said third information.

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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording an image processing program for causing an image processing apparatus including a display, a memory, and a processor, to perform:

a first accepting step of accepting an input of first information indicating an acquisition source of an image by said second accepting unit;
a second accepting step of accepting an input of second information indicating an editing process of said image by said second accepting unit;
a third accepting step of accepting an input of third information indicating an output destination of said image by said third accepting unit;
a display controlling step of causing said display to concurrently display first, second and third mutually exclusive areas corresponding to said first, second and third accepting units, respectively, so that said first, second and third mutually exclusive areas are arranged relative to one another in a sequence that corresponds to an input operation by a user sequentially inputting the first information to the third information, wherein said first area displays at least one icon that is selectable by a user to designate said first information, said second area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said second information, and said third area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said third information;
when accepting at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information in said first to third accepting steps, registering said at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as a setting information group in said memory;
and
a reading step of reading said setting information group from said memory in response to a reading instruction;
wherein
when said setting information group is read by said reading step, said display controlling step including the step of causing said first area to display said first information, said second area to display said second information and said third area to display said third information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/555,849Filed 9 Sep 2009
Priority: JP 2008-23834217 Sep 2008
Published: US 2010/0067044 A118 Mar 2010
Granted: 25 Sep 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 1/00416
Using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options: multi-level menus
H04N 1/00411
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
H04N 1/00413
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options
H04N 1/00424
Arrangements for navigating between pages or parts of the menu: using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar