THUMBNAIL CREATION METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• US 20100122216A1
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Woo-yeal, Kim, Haeng-nan
• Granted Patent: US 9,082,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1242 Image or content composition onto a page
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1246 by handling markup languages, e.g. XSL, XML, HTML
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1258 by updating job settings at the printer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/02 using printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1811 including high level document description only
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1848 Generation of the printable image

Abstract

A thumbnail creation method is provided, which includes receiving a selection of an XPS file, analyzing a structure of the XPS file, creating a thumbnail image representing the XPS file according to the analyzed structure, and adding the created thumbnail image to the XPS file. Therefore, it is possible for a user to easily add thumbnails to the XPS file.

Claims

1. A thumbnail creation method comprising:

receiving a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file;

analyzing a structure of the XPS file;

creating a thumbnail image representing the XPS file according to the analyzed structure; and

adding the created thumbnail image to the XPS file.

2. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing of the structure of the XPS file comprises:

analyzing a structure of a job region, a document region and a page region in the XPS file, and checking whether thumbnail information is contained in the job region, the document region and the page region.

3. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the selection of the XPS file comprises:

determining that the XPS file is selected when at least one of an XPS file print command and a thumbnail creation command is received.

4. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a notification that there is no thumbnail information when the XPS file does not contain thumbnail information.

5. The thumbnail creation method of claim 4, wherein the displaying of the notification comprises:

displaying the notification that there is no thumbnail information with a user interface window having a first field to display whether or not thumbnails exist for the job region, the document region and the page region in the XPS file, and a second field to receive a selection of whether to create thumbnails respectively representing the job region, the document region and the page region.

6. The thumbnail creation method of claim 5, wherein the creating of the thumbnail image comprises:

creating a thumbnail image representing a region from a received selection.

7. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, wherein the creating of the thumbnail image comprises:

creating at least one thumbnail image representing at least one of all regions of the XPS file, all document regions of the XPS file and all page regions of the XPS file.

8. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, wherein the creating of the thumbnail image comprises:

creating a thumbnail image using rendered data corresponding to a document region and a page region represented by the thumbnail image or print data corresponding to the document region and page region represented by the thumbnail image.

9. The thumbnail creation method of claim 8, wherein the creating of the thumbnail image comprises:

reducing the rendered data or the print data to a predetermined size and creating a thumbnail image.

10. The thumbnail creation method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the XPS file to which the thumbnail image is added.

11. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a user interface to receive a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file;

an analyzer to analyze a structure of the XPS file;

a thumbnail creator to create a thumbnail image representing the XPS file according to the analyzed structure; and

a controller to add the created thumbnail image to the XPS file.

12. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the analyzer analyzes a structure of a job region, a document region and a page region in the XPS file, and checks whether thumbnail information is contained in the job region, the document region and the page region.

13. The image forming apparatus of claim 12, wherein the user interface determines that the XPS file is selected when at least one of an XPS file print command and a thumbnail creation command is received.

14. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the user interface displays a notification that there is no thumbnail information when the XPS file does not contain thumbnail information.

15. The image forming apparatus of claim 14, wherein the user interface displays the notification that there is no thumbnail information with a user interface window having a first field to display whether or not thumbnails exist for the job region, the document region and the page region in the XPS file, and a second field to receive a selection of whether to create thumbnails respectively representing the job region, the document region and the page region.

16. The image forming apparatus of claim 15, wherein the thumbnail creator creates a thumbnail image representing a region from a received selection.

17. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the thumbnail creator creates at least one thumbnail image representing at least one of all regions of the XPS file, all document regions of the XPS file and all page regions of the XPS file.

18. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the thumbnail creator creates a thumbnail image using rendered data corresponding to a document region and a page region represented by the thumbnail image or print data corresponding to the document region and page region represented by the thumbnail image.

19. The image forming apparatus of claim 18, wherein the thumbnail creator reduces the rendered data or the print data to a predetermined size and creates a thumbnail image.

20. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a storage unit to store the XPS file to which the thumbnail image is added.

21. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a communication interface to transmit the XPS file to which the thumbnail image is added.

22. A thumbnail creation method comprising:

receiving a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file;

receiving a thumbnail creation command;

analyzing a structure of the XPS file;

creating a thumbnail image representing the XPS file according to the analyzed structure and the thumbnail creation command;

adding the created thumbnail image to the XPS file; and

storing the XPS file to which the thumbnail image is added.

23. An image forming apparatus, comprising:

a user interface to receive a selection of an XML paper specification (XPS) file and a thumbnail creation command;

an analyzer to analyze a structure of the XPS file;

a thumbnail creator to create a thumbnail image representing the XPS file according to the analyzed structure and the received thumbnail creation command;

a controller to add the created thumbnail image to the XPS file;

a communication interface to transmit the XPS file having the added thumbnail image; and

a digital storage device to store the XPS file to which the thumbnail image is added.