IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20120026552A1
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shirai, Toshiaki
• Application Number:
  US13/187,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20120026552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3243 of type information, e.g. handwritten or text document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3256 colour related metadata, e.g. colour, ICC profiles

Abstract

A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus for printing a first image file including a plurality of image frames on a paper sheet, the control method includes a first obtaining step of obtaining a total number of the image frames included in the first image file, a second obtaining step of obtaining a number of image frames to be printed on one paper sheet, a third obtaining step of obtaining a number of paper sheets to be used for printing, and a selecting step of automatically selecting the image frames to be printed based on the total number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining step, the number of the image frames to be printed on one paper sheet obtained by the second obtaining step, and the number of paper sheets to be used for printing obtained by the third obtaining step.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus capable of printing a first image file including a plurality of image frames on a paper sheet, the image processing apparatus comprising:

a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a total number of the image frames included in the first image file;

a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a number of the image frames to be printed on one paper sheet;

a third obtaining unit configured to obtain a number of paper sheets to be used for printing; and

a selecting unit configured to automatically select the image frames to be printed based on the total number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining unit, the number of the image frames to be printed on one paper obtained by the second obtaining unit, and the number of paper sheets to be used for printing obtained by the third obtaining unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting unit executes selection in a case where the image file including the image to be printed on the paper sheet is the first image file including the plurality of image frames.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting unit does not execute selection in a case where the image file including an image to be printed on the paper sheet is the second image file including only a single image frame.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determining unit configured to determine whether the image file including an image to be printed on the paper sheet is the first image file including the plurality of image frames or the second image file including only a single image frame.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a printing unit configured to print the image frames selected by the selecting unit on a paper sheet.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image frames included in the first image file are continuously stored, and

wherein the selecting unit includes at least any one of a first extracting unit configured to equally extract an image frame from the image frames included in the first image file and continuously stored, and a second extracting unit configured to sequentially extract the predetermined number of image frames from a specific position of the image frame included in the first image file and continuously stored.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting unit executes selection based on the number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining unit, the number of the image frames to be printed on one paper sheet obtained by the second obtaining unit, and the number of paper sheets to be used for printing obtained by the third obtaining unit in a case where not all the image frames obtained by the first obtaining unit can be printed.

2. An image processing apparatus capable of printing one first image file including a plurality of image frames on a paper sheet, the image processing apparatus comprising:

a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a total number of the image frames included in the first image file;

a fourth obtaining unit configured to obtain a number of frames to be printed; and

a selecting unit configured to automatically select the image frames to be printed based on the total number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining unit and the number of frames to be printed obtained by the fourth obtaining unit.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the selecting unit automatically selects the image frames to be printed in a case where the number of the image frames to be printed obtained by the fourth obtaining unit is smaller than the number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining unit.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a third obtaining unit configured to obtain the number of paper sheets to be used for printing,

wherein the number of the image frames to be printed on one paper sheet is determined based on the number of paper sheets to be used for printing obtained by the third obtaining unit and the number of the image frames to be printed obtained by the fourth obtaining unit.

11. A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus for printing a first image file including a plurality of image frames on a paper sheet, the control method comprising:

a first obtaining step of obtaining a total number of the image frames included in the first image file;

a second obtaining step of obtaining a number of image frames to be printed on one paper sheet;

a third obtaining step of obtaining a number of paper sheets to be used for printing; and

a selecting step of automatically selecting the image frames to be printed based on the total number of the image frames obtained by the first obtaining step, the number of the image frames to be printed on one paper sheet obtained by the second obtaining step, and the number of paper sheets to be used for printing obtained by the third obtaining step.