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US 8,803,890 B2Granted
Display control device, image formation data generating device, and information display system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorSachiko Abe
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a display control device includes: a control unit configured to control the display and output of image data; a display information generating unit configured to generate display information including at least an image ID for identifying the image data and a display period whenever the image data is output by the control unit for display; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the display information to an external device so that the display information is managed by the external device as one unit information item serving as a unit of image formation together with other display information items having a predetermined relation with the display information.
Claims14
An image formation data generating device comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store plural image data received from an external host so as to be associated with an image ID;
- a providing unit configured to provide image data stored in the storage unit to an external display device in response to a request from the external display device;
- a first acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the external display device, display information including at least an image ID for identifying each of the image data provided by the providing unit and a display period when the image data is output and displayed by the external display device;
- a management unit configured to manage the display information acquired by the first acquiring unit so as to be associated with other display information items having a predetermined relation with the display information as one unit information item serving as a unit of image formation;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a print request from the external display device instructing specific unit information;
- a second acquiring unit configured to acquire the display information related to the unit information instructed by the print request from the management unit and acquire image data corresponding to the image ID included in the display information from the storage unit;
- an extracting unit configured to extract a timing generated by the external display device at which the display and output on the external display device of the image data corresponding to the image ID is started based on a display period of the image ID included in the respective display information items acquired by the second acquiring unit;
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- an image formation data generating unit configured to generate image formation data using image data corresponding to the respective timings extracted by the extracting unit, wherein
- the image formation data is generated using both the order and timing of each individual image.
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An information display system comprising:
- one or plural display control devices;
- and
- an image formation data generating device connected to each of the display control devices, wherein
- the display control device includes:
- a control unit configured to control the display and output of image data;
- a display information generating unit configured to generate display information including at least an image ID for identifying the image data output for display and a display period whenever the image data is output by the control unit for display;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit the display information generated by the display information generating unit to the image formation data generating device;
- the image formation data generating device includes:
- a storage unit configured to store plural image data received from an external host so as to be associated with an image ID;
- a providing unit configured to provide image data stored in the storage unit to the display control device in response to a request from the display control device;
- a management unit configured to manage the display information transmitted by the transmitting unit so as to be associated with other display information items having a predetermined relation with the display information as one unit information item serving as a unit of image formation;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a print request from the display control device instructing specific presentation information;
- a second acquiring unit configured to
- acquire the display information related to the presentation information instructed by the print request from the management unit and
- acquire image data corresponding to the image ID included in the display information;
- an extracting unit configured to extract a timing generated by the display control device at which the display and output of the image data on the display control device corresponding to the image TD is started based on a display period of the image ID included in the respective display information items acquired by the second acquiring unit;
- and
- an image formation data generating unit configured to generate image formation data using image data corresponding to the respective timings extracted by the extracting unit, and
- the image formation data is generated using both the order and timing of each individual image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.