INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LAYOUT GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20120166934A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kihara, Yuka
• Application Number:
  US13/327,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166934A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/125 Page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a converting unit that converts acquired Web page information into bitmap data; a display control unit that displays, on a display unit on which the Web page information has been displayed, an image of the converted bitmap data by switching from the Web page information to the image; a receiving unit that receives an input for designating an output region as an output target from the displayed image; an extracting unit that extracts a corresponding region corresponding to the received output region from the bitmap data; and a layout generating unit that generates layout information representing a layout to arrange the extracted corresponding region on a page to be output.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a converting unit that converts acquired Web page information into bitmap data;

a display control unit that displays, on a display unit on which the Web page information has been displayed, an image of the converted bitmap data by switching from the Web page information to the image;

a receiving unit that receives an input for designating an output region as an output target from the displayed image;

an extracting unit that extracts a corresponding region corresponding to the received output region from the bitmap data; and

a layout generating unit that generates layout information representing a layout to arrange the extracted corresponding region on a page to be output.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving unit receives a designation of a plurality of output regions, and

the layout generating unit generates the layout information according to a predetermined sort order.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the sort order is a descending order of length of the output regions, and

the layout generating unit generates the layout information representing a layout in which the plurality of output regions are arranged in a free space of the page to be output in the descending order of length of the output regions.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the Web page information includes structure information, and

the layout generating unit generates a layout based on the structure information.

5. A layout generating method comprising:

converting acquired Web page information into bitmap data;

display controlling to display, on a display unit on which the Web page information has been displayed, an image of the converted bitmap by switching from the Web page information to the image;

receiving an input for designating an output region as an output target from the displayed image;

extracting a corresponding region corresponding to the received output region from the bitmap data; and

generating layout information representing a layout to arrange the extracted corresponding region on a page to be output.

6. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied in the medium causing a computer to execute:

converting acquired Web page information into bitmap data;

display controlling to display, on a display unit on which the Web page information has been displayed, an image of the converted bitmap by switching from the Web page information to the image;

receiving a designation input of an output region as an output target from the displayed image;

extracting a corresponding region corresponding to the received output region from the bitmap data; and

generating layout information representing a layout to arrange the extracted corresponding region on a page to be output.