Image processing system, image display apparatus, printer, and printing method

• US 20050237587A1
• Filed: 04/18/2005
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/107,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20050237587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/527
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00278 with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00294 for printing images at a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3877 Image rotation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3242 of processing required or performed, e.g. for reproduction or before recording H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3254 Orientation, e.g. landscape or portrait; Location or order of the image data, e.g. in memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide an image processing system, an image display apparatus, a printer, and a printing method that are capable of, when a user attempts to print-output image data, adjusting an orientation of printing of the image data and an orientation of a print sheet to an appropriate direction to print-output the image data on the print sheet. According to exemplary embodiments, an image display apparatus includes a display device and a display control unit that controls to display an image on the display device on the basis of image data to be inputted. A printer includes a printing unit that outputs an image based on the image data to a print medium and an image upper side judging unit that, in printing the image displayed on the display device, judges the top and the bottom of the image on the basis of additional information included in image data of the image. The printer rotates the image such that an upper side of the image and an upper side of the print media defined by the printer coincide with each other on the basis of a result of the judgment by the image upper side judging unit and outputs the image to the printing unit.

Claims

1. An image processing system, comprising:

an image display apparatus that includes a display unit that displays an image; and

a first image control unit that creates image data for printing to be outputted to the printer, the image display apparatus performing image processing for image data; and

a printer that outputs an image based on the image data to a print medium, the printer including a second image control unit; and

a printing unit;

in printing the image displayed on the display unit, the image processing system setting an orientation of the image to be printed such that the orientation is appropriate with respect to an orientation of the print medium defined by the printer.

2. The image processing system according to claim 1, the image data being inputted from the outside and, when orientation information is added to the image data, a reference of the orientation of the image to be printed being set as the orientation information.

3. The image processing system according to claim 1, the reference of the orientation of the image to be printed being set as the orientation of the image displayed on the display unit.

4. The image processing system according to claim 1, the image data being inputted from the outside and, when orientation information added to the image data and the orientation of the image displayed on the display unit do not coincide with each other, the orientation of the image, which is displayed on the display unit, being preferentially used as a reference of the orientation of the image to be printed.

5. The image processing system according to claim 1, the first image control unit adding additional information, with which the printer recognizes the orientation of the image to be printed, to the image data to print and the second image control unit adjusting the orientation of the image to be printed on a basis of the additional information added to the image data to print and causing the printing unit to print the image.

6. The image processing system according to claim 5, when orientation information is added to the image data and the orientation information and the orientation of the image displayed on the image display unit do not coincide with each other, the first image control unit replacing the orientation information with a content suited to the orientation of the image displayed on the display unit and creating image data for printing.

7. The image processing system according to claim 1, the first image control unit changing the orientation of the image data such that the orientation of the image to be printed is appropriate with respect to the orientation of the print medium defined by the printer and creating image data for printing.

8. The image processing system according to claim 1, the second image control unit arranging an image such that a shape of the image to be printed and a shape of the print medium coincide with each other and adjusting the orientation of the image to be printed on a basis of the image data for printing to cause the printing unit to print the image.

9. The image processing system according to claim 8, when the image is arranged such that a long side of the image is set along a long side of the print medium, if a top-to-bottom direction of the image based on the image data for printing and a print direction coincide with each other, the second image control unit rotating the image such that the long side of the image is set along the long side of the print medium and an upper side of the print medium defined by the printer and an upper side of the image coincide with each other and causing the printing unit to print the image.

10. An image display apparatus, comprising:

the image processing system according to claim 1.

11. A printer, comprising:

the image processing system according to claim 1.

12. A printing method of outputting image data to a print medium, comprising:

recognizing an orientation of the print medium defined by a printer;

recognizing an orientation of an image based on image data;

adjusting an orientation of an image to be printed such that the orientation of the image to be printed is appropriate with respect to the orientation of the print medium defined by the printer; and

outputting the image to the print medium in the adjusted orientation.