IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110231774A1
• Filed: 03/15/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: KANO, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,410 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1229 Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing apparatus comprising: a display; an embedded web browser that displays hypertext-coded information on the display; a data input and output module that inputs and outputs hypertext-coded data and can be accessed from the embedded web browser and another web browser of an external machine; a judgment portion that judges which the data input and output module is accessed from, the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine; a data generator that generates different display data depending on the judgment made by the judgment portion; and a transmitter that transmits the display data generated by the data generator, to the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a display;

an embedded web browser that displays hypertext-coded information on the display;

a data input and output module that inputs and outputs hypertext-coded data and can be accessed from the embedded web browser and another web browser of an external machine;

a judgment portion that judges which the data input and output module is accessed from, the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine;

a data generator that generates different display data depending on the judgment made by the judgment portion; and

a transmitter that transmits the display data generated by the data generator, to the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine.

2. The image processing apparatus recited in claim 1, wherein the data input and output module includes a web server and a CGI processor that executes processing according to a request received by the web server.

3. The image processing apparatus recited in claim 2, wherein if a CGI executed by the CGI processor is constructed by a user, the data input and output module rejects an access from the web browser of the external machine.

4. A data processing method for an image processing apparatus comprising:

judging which a data input and output module that inputs and outputs hypertext-coded data and can be accessed from an embedded web browser displaying hypertext-coded information on a display, and another web browser of an external machine, is accessed from, the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine;

generating different display data depending on the judgment; and

transmitting the generated display data to the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine.

5. The data processing method recited in claim 4, wherein the data input and output module includes a web server and a CGI processor that executes processing according to a request received by the web server.

6. The data processing method recited in claim 5, wherein if a CGI is constructed by a user, the data input and output module rejects an access from the web browser of the external machine.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a data processing program stored thereon to make a computer of an image processing apparatus execute:

judging which a data input and output module that inputs and outputs hypertext-coded data and can be accessed from an embedded web browser displaying hypertext-coded information on a display, and another web browser of an external machine, is accessed from, the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine;

generating different display data depending on the judgment; and

transmitting the generated display data to the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine.

8. The recording medium having a data processing program stored thereon, whereby the data input and output module includes a web server and a CGI processor that executes processing according to a request received by the web server.

9. The recording medium having a data processing program stored thereon to make a computer of an image processing apparatus further execute rejecting an access from the web browser of the external machine, if a CGI is constructed by a user.