Image processing apparatus, job management method, and storage medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorHisanori Takahashi
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to select one of the constituent functions and add a subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions, and to receive a request to execute the job.
Claims20
An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions, comprising:
- a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to identify and select one of the constituent functions and add a user-selected subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions concurrently with executing the job, and to receive a request to continue executing the job, at the image processing apparatus, until completion;
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- a function management unit configured to determine whether to allow addition of the subsequent function based on types of the selected one of the constituent functions and the subsequent function.
A job management method in an image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions, comprising the steps of:
- displaying states of the job and the constituent functions;
- allowing a user to identify and select one of the constituent functions and add a user-selected subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions concurrently with executing the job;
- receiving a request to continue executing the job, at the image processing apparatus, until completion;
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- determining whether to allow addition of the subsequent function based on types of the selected one of the constituent functions and the subsequent function.
A storage medium having program code embodied therein for causing a computer to function as a control unit of an image processing apparatus in which a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions,
- wherein the control unit is configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to identify and select one of the constituent functions and add a user-selected subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions concurrently with executing the job, and to receive a request to execute the job, at the image processing apparatus, until completion, and
- wherein a function management unit is configured to determine whether to allow addition of the subsequent function based on types of the selected one of the constituent functions and the subsequent function.
An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions, comprising:
- a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to identify and select one of the constituent functions and add a user-selected subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions concurrently with executing the job, and to receive a request to continue executing the job, at the image processing apparatus, until completion,
- wherein the control unit is configured to allow the user to specify the subsequent function as a terminal function and to reject addition of another function after the terminal function and to disable addition of functions to the job if functions positioned at ends of processing paths in the job are all specified as terminal functions.
An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions, comprising:
- a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to identify and select one of the constituent functions and add a user-selected subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions concurrently with executing the job, and to receive a request to continue executing the job, at the image processing apparatus, until completion,
- wherein the control unit is configured to allow the user to search for new functions on a download server, to display the new functions found by the search as candidates to be added to the job, to allow the user to select one of the displayed new functions, to download the selected one of the new functions from the download server, and to install the downloaded selected one of the new functions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.