METHOD OF USING ADDRESS BOOK OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS ON WEB BROWSER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME

• US 20150237224A1
• Filed: 02/18/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hyun-seok
• Granted Patent: US 9,736,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00395 Arrangements for reducing operator input input arrangements for job or mode instructions or parameters H04N1/00962; intelligent menu interfaces H04N1/00437
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00493 Particular location of the interface or console

Abstract

A method of using an address book of an image forming apparatus on a web browser includes receiving web data in an image forming apparatus from a web server; displaying a web page corresponding to the received web data on a display unit of the image forming apparatus; receiving an input of selecting one of at least one input box comprised in the web page; analyzing a form tag corresponding to the selected input box from the web data; and displaying a virtual text input device or an address list on the display unit based on the analysis result in which the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number, wherein the virtual keyboard is capable of being synchronized with an address book of the image forming apparatus.

Claims

1. A method of using an address book of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a web page corresponding to received web data on a display unit of the image forming apparatus;

receiving an input selecting an input box comprised in the web page;

analyzing a form tag corresponding to the selected input box from the web data; and

displaying a virtual text input device or an address list on the display unit based on the analysis result in which the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number, wherein the displayed virtual keyboard is capable of being synchronized with an address book of the image forming apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing of the form tag comprises:

determining the selected input box as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number when an input tag comprised in the form tag is an “

email”

type or a “

tel”

type supported by hypertext markup language (HTML) 5.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the virtual text input device or the address list on the display unit comprises:

identifying attributes comprised in the form tag;

determining whether to display the virtual text input device or the address list according to the identified attributes; and

displaying the virtual text input device or the determined address list based on the determination.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the virtual input device or the address list comprises:

displaying the address list when a “

list”

attribute is comprised in the form tag, wherein the “

list”

attribute designates the address book of the image forming apparatus.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the virtual input device or the address list comprises:

displaying a filtered address list when a pattern attribute is comprised in the form tag and when an input is received corresponding to the pattern attribute.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address book of the image forming apparatus comprises a button that loads the address book.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input value of an email address or a phone number by using the virtual text input device;

performing validation with respect to the received input value; and

displaying the input value on the selected input box when the received input value is validated as a valid email address or a valid phone number.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

9. An image forming apparatus for supporting a web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a communication unit for receiving web data by performing communication with an external web server;

a storage unit for storing an address book;

a web browser for displaying a web page corresponding to the received web data and for synchronizing with the stored address book of the image forming apparatus; and

a control unit,

wherein upon receiving an input of selecting an input box comprised in the web page, the web browser analyzes a form tag corresponding to the selected input box, determines the selected input box as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number based on the analyzing, and then displays a virtual text input device or an address list on the display unit based on the determining,

wherein the virtual text input device is capable of being synchronized with the address book of the image forming apparatus.

10. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the web browser comprises a web data interpretation unit for generating a web page to be displayed by interpreting the web data;

and

a form handler for determining whether the selected input box is regarded as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number by analyzing the form tag corresponding to the selected input box from the web data.

11. The image forming apparatus of claim 10, wherein the form handler determines the input box is as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number when an input tag comprised in the form tag is an “

email”

type or a “

tel”

type supported by HTML5.

12. The image forming apparatus of claim 10, wherein the form handler identifies attributes comprised in the form tag, and accordingly, determines a virtual text input device or an address list to be displayed on the display unit.

13. The image forming apparatus of claim 12, wherein the form handler determines whether to display the address list when a “

list”

attribute is comprised in the form tag, wherein the list attribute designates the address book of the image forming apparatus.

14. The image forming apparatus of claim 12, wherein the form handler determines whether to display a filtered address list when a pattern attribute is comprised in the form tag.

15. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the virtual text input device capable of being synchronized with the address book of the image forming apparatus comprises a button that loads the address list.

16. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the web browser receives an input value of an email address or a phone number by using the virtual text input device, performs validation with respect to the received input value, and then displays the input value in the selected input box when the received input value is validated as a valid email address or a valid phone number.

17. A method of entering data in an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying web data on a display unit of the image forming apparatus;

determining whether a selected input box of the displayed web data is for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number; and

displaying a virtual keyboard on the display unit when the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving the input of the email address or the phone number,

wherein the displayed virtual keyboard is configured to be synchronized with an address book stored in the image forming apparatus.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein a form tag of the selected input box is analyzed to determine whether the selected input box of the displayed web data is for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number when an input tag included in the form tag corresponding to the selected input box is determined as an “

email”

type or a “

tel”

type supported by HTML 5.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein all email address entries beginning with a first character are displayed on the display unit when the first character of the email address is received as an input in the selected input box, the displayed email address entries being obtained from the address book stored in the image forming apparatus.

21. An image forming apparatus supporting a web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a communication unit for receiving web data by communicating with an external web server;

a display unit for displaying the received web data;

a storage unit for storing an address book; and

a control unit, for determining whether a selected input box of the displayed web data is for receiving an input of an email address or a phone number, and for controlling the display unit to display a virtual keyboard when the selected input box is determined as an input box for receiving the input of the email address or the phone number,

wherein the virtual keyboard displayed on the display unit is configured to be synchronized with the address book stored in the storage unit.