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US 9,961,232 B2Granted
Image forming device having different ways of storing preview data
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorYuki Shimotsu
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Abstract
To provide an image forming device (20) able to perform an appropriate preview. A MFP (20) that generates an output image (27a) for at least one of transmission and printing (S102) and executes an output using an output image (27a) generated in S102. The MFP (20) generates a preview image (27b) for preview of the output image (27a), stores the preview image (27b) generated in S104 in a storage medium (30) outside of the MFP (20), and performs a preview using the preview image (27b) stored in the storage medium (30) in S109 (S111).
Claims7
An image forming device comprising:
- an output image generating part that generates an output image for output of at least one of transmission and printing;
- an image output part that executes the output using the output image generated by the output image generating part;
- a preview image generating part that generates a preview image for preview of the output image;
- a preview image management part that stores the preview image generated by the preview image generating part in a storage medium;
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- a preview performing part that executes the preview using the preview image stored in the storage medium,
- wherein the image forming device comprises a first storage medium inside the image forming device that stores preview images,
- wherein the preview image management part stores a new preview image in the first storage medium inside of the image forming device if a free capacity of the first storage medium is larger than a size large enough to allow the new preview image to be stored, and
- wherein the preview image management part, if the free capacity in the first storage medium is less than the size large enough to allow the new preview image to be stored and if a free capacity in a second storage medium outside of the image forming device is larger than the size large enough to allow storage of the new preview image and at least part of the preview images stored in the first storage medium, stores the new preview image in the second storage medium outside of the image forming device and moves the at least part of the preview images stored in the first storage medium to the second storage medium.
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An image forming device comprising:
- an output image generating part that generates an output image for output of at least one of transmission and printing;
- an image output part that executes the output using the output image generated by the output image generating part;
- a preview image generating part that generates a preview image for preview of the output image;
- a preview image management part that stores the preview image generated by the preview image generating part in a storage medium;
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- a preview performing part that executes the preview using the preview image stored in the storage medium,
- wherein the image forming device comprises a first storage medium inside the image forming device that stores preview images,
- wherein the preview image management part stores a new preview image in the first storage medium inside of the image forming device if a free capacity of the first storage medium is larger than a size large enough to allow the new preview image to be stored, and
- wherein the preview image management part moves a preview image stored in the first storage medium inside of the image forming device to a second storage medium outside of the image forming device so that, following the move, the free capacity in the first storage medium inside of the image forming device is larger than the size large enough to allow the new preview image to be stored if the free capacity in the first storage medium inside of the image forming device is less than the size large enough to allow the new preview image to be stored, wherein the preview image to be moved is chosen for said move such that the total size of the preview image to be moved to the second storage medium from the first storage medium is minimized, and then
- the preview image management part stores the new preview image in the first storage medium.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.