Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

• US 20100077379A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Sugishita, Satoru
• Application Number:
  US12/585,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays an operation screen for a user to perform an input operation; a storing unit that stores therein a screen element database that stores therein a plurality of screen elements to be arranged on the operation screen and that is capable of storing therein a definition file that defines a display screen; an input unit that receives selection of a plurality of screen elements from the screen element database and receive input of component information in which layout information that represents a layout position of a screen element, element definition information that specifies a screen element arranged at the layout position, and screen element information that represents an image of a screen element are correlated with each other, the component information corresponding to each of the screen elements; and a definition-file creating unit that creates the definition file by combining a plurality of pieces of the component information received by the input unit and configured to store the definition file in the storing unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that performs image processing in accordance with an input operation by a user, the image processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display an operation screen for a user to perform an input operation to the image processing apparatus;

a storing unit configured to store therein a screen element database that stores therein a plurality of screen elements to be arranged on the operation screen and that is capable of storing therein a definition file that defines a display screen;

an input unit configured to receive selection of a plurality of screen elements from the screen element database and receive input of component information in which layout information that represents a layout position of a screen element, element definition information that specifies a screen element arranged at the layout position, and screen element information that represents an image of a screen element are correlated with each other, the component information corresponding to each of the screen elements; and

a definition-file creating unit configured to create the definition file by combining a plurality of pieces of the component information received by the input unit and configured to store the definition file in the storing unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display control unit configured to display a definition-file creating screen through which the user inputs necessary information for creating the definition file, and a component-information input screen through which the user inputs the component information that is used for creating the definition file, on the display unit, wherein

the input unit receives the necessary information input through the definition-file creating screen and the component information input through the component-information input screen, and

the definition-file creating unit creates the definition file based on the necessary information input through the definition-file creating screen and the component information input through the component-information input screen.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit displays information that input is necessary in a necessary item from among items input for the component information displayed on the component-information input screen, and when the component information is not input from the input unit in the necessary item, displays information that the component information is not input in the necessary item on the display unit.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit displays a preview image that receives specification of displaying on the display unit a layout of the component information, which is input on the component-information input screen, on the operation screen, and upon receiving the specification of the preview image from the input unit, displays the layout on the display unit.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein display control unit displays edit images that receive specification of input, delete, edit, and insert of the component information, which is input on the component-information input screen, on the definition-file creating screen, and upon receiving the specification of any one of the edit images from the input unit, performs a process specified to the component-information input screen and updates the definition-file creating screen.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display control unit displays on the display unit a save image that receives specification of storing the component information, which is input on the component-information input screen from the input unit, in the storing unit, and

the storing unit stores therein the component information upon receiving the specification of the save image from the input unit.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit displays on the display unit a read image that receives specification of reading out the component information stored in the storing unit, and upon receiving the specification of the read image from the input unit, reads out the component information from the storing unit and displays the component information on the display unit.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a source-code creating unit that creates a source code that operates the screen element and the image processing apparatus in a correlated manner based on the component information input from the input unit.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a project-file creating unit that creates a project file that collectively manages the source code created by the source-code creating unit and the definition file stored in the storing unit.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit, upon receiving selection of the screen element from the input unit, displays a reference screen that displays an image corresponding to the screen element that is selected on the display unit.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a component-information determining unit that determines whether the component information input on the component-information input screen is input following a correct input rule, wherein

the display control unit, upon determining by the component-information determining unit that the component information is not input following the correct input rule, displays a notification indicating that the component information is against the input rule on the display unit.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a command description unit that describes process information performed when the input unit receives specification of the screen element displayed on the operation screen, on the component-information input screen.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a command determining unit that determines whether the process information described by the command description unit is input following a correct input rule, wherein

the display control unit, upon determining by the command description unit that the process information is not input following the input rule, displays a notification indicating that the component information is against the input rule on the display unit.

14. An image processing method that is performed in an image processing apparatus that performs image processing in accordance with an input operation by a user, the image processing method comprising:

receiving including

receiving selection of a plurality of screen elements by an input unit from a screen element database that stores therein a plurality of screen elements to be arranged on an operation screen for a user performing an input operation to the image processing apparatus, and

receiving input of component information in which layout information that represents a layout position of a screen element, element definition information that specifies a screen element arranged at the layout position, and screen element information that represents an image of a screen element are correlated with each other, the component information corresponding to each of the screen elements; and

creating the definition file by combining a plurality of pieces of the component information received at the receiving.

15. A recording medium that stores therein a computer program which when executed on a computer causes the computer to execute:

receiving including

receiving selection of a plurality of screen elements from a screen element database that stores therein a plurality of screen elements to be arranged on an operation screen for a user performing an input operation to the computer, and

receiving input of component information in which layout information that represents a layout position of a screen element, element definition information that specifies a screen element arranged at the layout position, and screen element information that represents an image of a screen element are correlated with each other, the component information corresponding to each of the screen elements; and

creating the definition file by combining a plurality of pieces of the component information received at the receiving.