JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD OF JOB PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140376043A1
• Filed: 06/09/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsujita, Kosuke
• Application Number:
  US14/299,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20140376043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5083 for scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1217 achieving reduced idle time at the output device or increased asset utilization
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1262 by grouping or ganging jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/002 Interacting with the operator

Abstract

Displayed jobs are combined by a simple operation instruction to a schedule screen of jobs which are displayed. A job processing apparatus has: a display unit for displaying a schedule screen of jobs to be executed; a receiving unit for receiving an operation for moving a display object of a first job displayed on the schedule screen to a display object of a second job; and a combining unit for combining the first and second jobs in accordance with the received operation.

Claims

1. A job processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a schedule screen of jobs to be executed;

a receiving unit configured to receive an operation for moving a display object of a first job displayed on the schedule screen to a display object of a second job; and

a combining unit configured to combine the first job and the second job in accordance with the operation received by the receiving unit.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an updating unit configured to update the schedule screen displayed on the display unit on the basis of information of the jobs combined by the combining unit.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not an attribute of the first job and an attribute of the second job coincide when the operation is received by the receiving unit; and

an attribute changing unit configured to change the attribute of the first job or the second job in response to an instruction to change the attribute of the job if it is determined by the determining unit that the attribute of the first job and the attribute of the second job do not coincide.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a judging unit configured to judge whether or not a difference between the number of output prints of the first job and the number of output prints of the second job exceeds a predetermined value when the operation is received by the receiving unit; and

a display control unit configured to enlarge and display an area exceeding the predetermined value if it is determined by the judging unit that the difference between the number of output prints of the first job and the number of output prints of the second job exceeds the predetermined value.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detecting unit configured to detect that the number of output copies of the first job and the number of output copies of the second job are equal when the operation is received by the receiving unit; and

an order changing unit configured to change executing order of the first job and the second job if it is detected by the detecting unit that the number of output copies of the first job and the number of output copies of the second job are equal.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein on the schedule screen, a kind of paper is displayed on an axis of ordinate and a time is displayed on an axis of abscissa.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation is a dragging operation.

8. A display control method of a job processing apparatus having a display unit configured to display a schedule screen of jobs to be executed, comprising:

receiving an operation for moving a display object of a first job displayed on the schedule screen to a display object of a second job; and

combining the first job and the second job in accordance with the operation received by the receiving step.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute a display control method of a job processing apparatus having a display unit configured to display a schedule screen of jobs to be executed, wherein the program comprises:

a code for receiving an operation for moving a display object of a first job displayed on the schedule screen to a display object of a second job; and

a code for combining the first job and the second job in accordance with the operation received by the receiving code.