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US 9,003,281 B2Granted
Image processing apparatus capable of automatically generating help document for workflow, help document generating method and help document generating form
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorMasaya Hashimoto
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Abstract
To provide a user with an easily understandable help document, the MFP capable of executing a plurality of processes includes a process designation accepting portion to accept designation of at least one of the plurality of processes, a workflow generating portion to generate workflow definition data defining the one or more processes accepted, and a help document generating portion to generate a help document corresponding to the generated workflow. The help document generating portion includes a summary page generating portion to generate a summary page having listed thereon process names for identification of the one or more processes defined by the corresponding workflow definition data.
Claims21
An image processing apparatus capable of executing a plurality of processes, the apparatus comprising:
- a process designation accepting portion to accept designation of at least one of said plurality of processes;
- a workflow generating portion to generate a workflow defining said one or more processes accepted;
- a help information storage portion to store help information associating for each of the plurality of processes a process name as identification information for identification of each of the plurality of processes with a process explanation as an explanation of each of the plurality of processes;
- a help document generating portion to generate a help document corresponding to said generated workflow, wherein said help document generating portion includes a summary page generating portion to generate a summary page having listed thereon identification information for identification of each of said one or more processes defined by said corresponding workflow generated by said workflow generating portion;
- a display control portion to control display of the help document generated, and
- a details page generating portion to read one or more help information items corresponding respectively to the one or more processes defined by the generated workflow to generate one or more details pages respectively including the one or more help information items read;
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- an associating portion to associate identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page with the one or more details pages generated, wherein the display control portion, in a case where any one of the identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page is designated, displays the details page associated with the identification information items designated.
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A help document generating method carried out by an image processing apparatus capable of executing a plurality of processes, the method comprising:
- accepting designation of at least one of said plurality of processes;
- generating a workflow defining said one or more processes accepted;
- storing help information associating for each of the plurality of processes a process name as identification information for identification of each of the plurality of processes with a process explanation as an explanation of each of the plurality of processes;
- generating a help document corresponding to said generated workflow;
- generating a summary page having listed thereon identification information for identification of each of said one or more processes defined by said generated workflow generated by said workflow generating;
- controlling display of the help document generated;
- reading one or more help information items corresponding respectively to the one or more process defined by the generated workflow to generate one or more details pages respectively including the one or more help information items read;
- associating identification information items of the one or more process included in the summary page with the one or more details pages generated;
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- when any of the identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page is designated, displaying the details page associated with the identification information items designated.
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A help document generating method carried out by an image processing apparatus capable of executing a plurality of processes, the method comprising:
- accepting designation of at least one of said plurality of processes;
- generating a workflow defining said one or more processes accepted;
- storing help information associating for each of the plurality of processes a process name as identification information for identification of each of the plurality of processes with a process explanation as an explanation of each of the plurality of processes;
- generating a summary page having listed thereon identification information for identification of each of said one or more processes defined by said generated workflow, wherein said generating a workflow includes accepting a preset value for executing said one or more processes accepted, and associating said preset value accepted for each of said one or more processes defined by said workflow with the corresponding process, and said help document generating method further comprises generating a preparation page, the preparation page including the preset value for any of said one or more processes with which said preset value is associated, and including predetermined explanation for any of said one or more processes with which no preset value is associated;
- controlling display of the help document generated;
- reading one or more help information items corresponding respectively to the one or more processes defined by the generated workflow to generate one or more details pages respectively including the one or more help information items read;
- associating identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page with the one or more details pages generated;
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- when any one of the identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page is designated, displaying the details page associated with the identification information items designated.
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A help document generating program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for causing a computer controlling an image processing apparatus capable of executing a plurality of processes to execute processing including:
- accepting designation of at least one of said plurality of processes;
- generating a workflow defining said one or more processes accepted;
- storing help information associating for each of the plurality of processes a process name as identification information for identification of each of the plurality of processes with a process explanation as an explanation of each of the plurality of processes;
- generating a help document corresponding to said generated workflow;
- generating a summary page having listed thereon identification information for identification of each of said one or more processes defined by said generated workflow generated by said workflow generating;
- controlling display of the help document generated;
- reading one or more help information items corresponding respectively to the one or more processes defined by the generated workflow to generate one or more details pages respectively including the one or more help information items read;
- associating identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page with the one or more details pages generated;
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- when any one of the identification information items of the one or more processes included in the summary page is designated, displaying the details page associated with the identification information items designated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.