Printing device capable of displaying thumbnail image of motion image file
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomohiko Hasegawa
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A printing device having a retrieving unit to retrieve an image file representing a motion image, a generating unit to extract a plurality of frame images from the image file and generate a first output image in which the plurality of extracted frame images are laid out on a single page. A displaying unit displays the first output image having the plurality of extracted frame images. The plurality of extracted frame images are displayed each at a size larger than a size of the frame image laid out in the first output image and each at a time different from one another and different from a time when the displaying unit displays the first output image. A printing unit prints the first output image having the plurality of extracted frame images.
Claims16
A printing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- an instruction memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the printing device to perform:
- retrieving an image file representing a motion image, the motion image including
- one frame image, at least one intermediate frame image and another frame image, chronologically consecutive with one another in the recited order;
- extracting a plurality of frame images including the one frame image and the another frame image from the image file without extracting the at least one intermediate frame image from the image file,
- for each of the plurality of extracted frames including the one frame image and the another frame image:
- converting the extracted frame image to a predetermined size and displaying the converted extracted frame image at the predetermined size on a display unit of the printing device;
- laying out the extracted frame image on a page;
- and
- wherein a subsequent frame image is extracted from the image file after the converted extracted frame image is displayed and the extracted frame image is laid out;
- wherein each of the plurality of extracted frame images are laid out on a same page,
- wherein each of the plurality of converted extracted frame images is displayed sequentially at predetermined time intervals and without displaying the at least one intermediate frame image, the plurality of converted extracted frame images including one converted extracted frame image and another converted extracted frame image,
- generating a first output image in which the plurality of extracted frame images including the one frame image and the another frame image are laid out on the same page as a single output image;
- displaying, on the display unit of the printing device, the first output image after the plurality of converted extracted frame images are displayed, and the display of the one converted extracted frame image being switched to display of the another converted extracted frame image as a next display, the one converted extracted frame image being displayed in a same position as-the another converted extracted frame image;
- and
- printing the first output image.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for a computer, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of the computer, causes the computer to perform:
- retrieving, one image file representing a motion image, the motion image including one frame image, at least one intermediate frame image and another frame image, chronologically consecutive with one another in the recited order;
- extracting a plurality of frame images including the one frame image and the another frame image from the one image file without extracting the at least one intermediate frame image from the image file;
- for each of the plurality of extracted frames including the one frame image and the another frame image:
- converting the extracted frame image to a predetermined size and displaying the converted extracted frame image at the predetermined size on a display unit of the computer;
- laying out the extracted frame image on a page;
- and
- wherein a subsequent frame image is extracted from the one image file after the converted extracted frame image is displayed and the extracted frame image is laid out, wherein each of the plurality of extracted frame images are laid out on a same page, wherein each of the plurality of converted extracted frame images is displayed sequentially at predetermined time intervals and without displaying the at least one intermediate frame image, the plurality of converted extracted frame images including one converted extracted frame image and another converted extracted frame image,
- generating a first output image in which the plurality of extracted frame images including the one frame image and the another frame image are laid out on the same page as a single output image;
- displaying, on the display unit of the computer, the first output image after the plurality of converted extracted frame images are displayed, the display of the one converted extracted frame image being switched to display the another converted extracted frame image as a next display, the one converted extracted frame image being displayed in a same position as the another converted extracted frame image;
- and
- controlling a printing device to print the first output image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.