SOFTWARE STARTUP LANGUAGE UNIFICATION APPARATUS, SOFTWARE STARTUP LANGUAGE UNIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20070245346A1
• Filed: 04/04/2007
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shintoku, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/696,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20070245346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A software display language unification apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection; a language management information storage unit configured to store language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software; a checking unit configured to check the stored language management information at the time of startup of software; and a display language determination unit configured to determine a display language to be used by software being started based on the checked language management information.

Claims

1. A software display language unification apparatus, comprising:

a selection unit configured to select a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

a language management information storage unit configured to store language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software;

a checking unit configured to check the stored language management information at the time of startup of software; and

a display language determination unit configured to determine a display language to be used by software being started based on the checked language management information.

2. The software display language unification apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the language management information includes information on only a single language, and

wherein, when a plurality of pieces of software are individually started up, the checking unit checks the language management information.

3. The software display language unification apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an updating unit, and

wherein the language management information storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of language management information corresponding to a plurality of pieces of software, and

wherein, when any one of the plurality of pieces of language management information stored in the language management information storage unit is updated, the updating unit updates the other pieces of language management information so that the plurality of pieces of language management information can be unified into management information for an updated language.

4. The software display language unification apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display language determination unit determines a display language by checking an operating system startup locale when language information for checking has not been stored at the time of startup of software.

5. A software display language unification method, comprising:

selecting a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

storing language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software in a memory, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software for display;

checking the language management information stored in the memory at the time of startup of software; and

determining a display language to be used by software being started based on the checked language management information.

6. A program stored on a computer-readable medium and having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to execute procedures for:

selecting a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

storing language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software in a memory, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software for display;

checking the language management information stored in the memory at the time of startup of software; and

determining a display language to be used by software being started based on the checked language management information.

7. A software display language unification apparatus, comprising:

a selection unit configured to select a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

a language management information storage unit configured to store language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software for display;

a determination unit configured to determine whether the language management information has been stored; and

a control unit configured to prevent the selection unit from selecting a language in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection at the time of software installation when it is determined by the determination unit that the language management information has been stored.

8. A software display language unification method, comprising:

selecting a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

storing language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software for display;

determining whether the language management information has been stored; and

preventing selecting a language in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection at the time of software installation when it is determined that the language management information has been stored.

9. A program stored on a computer-readable medium and having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to execute procedures for:

selecting a language to be used by software for display in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection;

storing language management information to be commonly checked by a plurality of pieces of software, the language management information being management information for a language to be used by software for display;

determining whether the language management information has been stored; and

preventing selecting a language in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection at the time of software installation when it is determined that the language management information has been stored.