Image processing apparatus and program

• US 10,003,709 B1
• Filed: 03/22/2017
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Worku, Negussie
• Application Number:
  US15/466,053
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 358 115, 358 19, 358 118, 358 12, 358 11, 358 116, 358442, 358448, 358470, 382296, 382298, 382166, 382233, 382248, 382255, 382276, 382286, 382295, 382305, 709201, 709217, 709230, 709238, 709239
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1203 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/123 Software or firmware update, e.g. device firmware management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00498 Multi-lingual facilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00938 Software related arrangements, e.g. loading applications program loading in general G06F9/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a display character string storage unit, an application control unit, and a search unit. The display character string storage unit stores language information indicating the kind of language which can be displayed by the image processing apparatus, and a character string corresponding to the language information. The application control unit executes an application for realizing an additional function of the image processing apparatus. The search unit acquires a character string of the kind of language which the application does not have from the display character string storage unit on the basis of a character string identifier for specifying a character string stored in the display character string storage unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a display character string storage device configured to store language information indicating a kind of language which can be displayed by the image processing apparatus, and a character string corresponding to the language information, wherein the kind of language is used by the image processing apparatus;

a memory that stores instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

executing an application for realizing an additional function of the image processing apparatus, wherein the application stores the language information used during execution of the application and the character string;

setting the kind of language used by the image processing apparatus;

in response to determining that the language information stored to the display character string storage device corresponds to the kind of language used during execution of the application, acquiring a character string from the application; and

acquiring a character string of the kind of language which the application does not have from the display character string storage device based on a character string identifier for specifying a character string stored in the display character string storage device.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the operations further comprise acquiring a character string from the display character string storage device based on the character string identifier and language information indicating a language used by the application.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the operations further comprise acquiring a character string from the display character string storage device based on a character string received from the executing and language information indicating a language used by the application.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving selection of the character string from a user in response to a plurality of acquired character strings.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to not acquiring a character string from the display character string storage device, displaying the character string on a display device by using a predetermined language which the application has.

6. A program causing a computer to function as the image processing apparatus according to claim 1.