Tab image extraction and placement

• US 5,337,161 A
• Filed: 06/30/1993
• Issued: 08/09/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Hube, Randall R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coles, Sr., Edward L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US08/083,582
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 358/445, 358/449, 358/451, 358/452, 358/404, 358/444, 358/448, 358/453, 382/45, 382/46, 382/47
• US Class Current: 358/448
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/02 using printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/021 Adaptations for printing on specific media
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393

Abstract

An electronic reprographic printing system that extracts a tab image from a print job, document or memory for printing on tab stock. The extracted tab image can be rotated, shifted and scaled accordingly, to be printed in the tab area of a sheet of tab stock. Depending upon the cut of tab stock, the tab image is designated to be placed on a particular occurrence of a tab in a sequence of tabs. The tab images are stored sequentially in the system memory and may be edited as required. The print job including the tab images can be printed in its entirety.

Claims

1. A method for producing tab images for a print job, comprising the steps of:

supplying image data comprising page images;

supplying a type of tab stock cut having at least one tab extension;

supplying tab image parameters based in part on the type of tab stock cut;

selecting at least one tab image from a portion of any one of the page images;

processing the tab image according to the tab image parameters; and

storing the at least one processed tab image in a sequential order corresponding to a tab sequence for the type of tab stock cut.

2. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of supplying tab image parameters further comprises the steps of:

supplying tab extension dimensions for the at least one tab extension; and

storing the tab extension dimensions.

3. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of supplying tab image parameters further comprises the steps of:

supplying a final orientation of the tab image for printing on a sheet of tab stock; and

storing the final orientation.

4. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of supplying tab image parameters further comprises the steps of:

supplying an input orientation of the tab image for printing on a sheet of tab stock; and

storing the input orientation.

5. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of supplying tab image parameters further comprises the step of:

supplying a scale factor for scaling the tab image.

6. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of supplying tab image parameters further comprises the step of:

determining a rotation for the tab image based on an input orientation and a final orientation.

7. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of selecting a tab image further comprises the steps of:

supplying tab image dimensions; and

storing the tab image dimensions.

8. The method for producing tab images according to claim 7, further comprising the step of:

determining whether the tab image dimensions exceed maximum tab dimensions.

9. The method for producing tab images according to claim 8, further comprising the step of:

adjusting the tab image dimensions based on the step of determining whether the tab image dimensions exceed the maximum tab dimensions.

10. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of selecting the image data further comprise the step of:

selecting the tab image from a display of at least part of the image data.

11. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, wherein the step of processing the tab image according to the tab image parameters further comprises the steps of:

supplying a predetermined scale factor;

scaling the tab image by the predetermined scale factor; and

storing the scaled tab image.

12. The method for producing tab images according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

retrieving said stored processed tab image;

applying said retrieved tab image to a tab page image; and

storing said tab page image.

13. The method for producing tab images according to claim 12, further comprising the step of:

printing said tab page image on a sheet of tab stock.

14. The method of producing tab images according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

editing the sequentially stored processed tab images.

15. An electronic reprographic printing system for printing tab images on tab stock, comprising:

means for supplying image data;

means for supplying a type of tab stock cut having a tab extension;

means for supplying tab image parameters based in part on the type of tab stock cut supplied;

means for selecting at least one tab image from a portion of any one of the page images;

means for processing the tab image according to the tab image parameters; and

means for storing the at least one processed tab image in a sequential order corresponding to a tab sequence for the type of tab stock cut.

16. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for supplying tab extension dimensions for the at least one tab extension, and said tab extension dimensions being stored in said storage means.

17. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for supplying a tab image final orientation for printing on a sheet of tab stock, said tab image final orientation being stored in said storage means.

18. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for supplying a tab image input orientation for printing on a sheet of tab stock, said tab image input orientation being stored in said storage means.

19. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for supplying a scale factor for scaling the tab image; and

means for scaling said tab image based on the scale factor.

20. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for determining a tab image rotation factor based on an input orientation and a final orientation.

21. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for supplying tab image dimensions, said tab image dimensions being stored in said storage means.

22. The printing system according to claim 21, further comprising:

means for determining whether the tab image dimensions exceed maximum tab dimensions.

23. The printing system according to claim 22, further comprising means for adjusting the stored tab image dimensions based on the means for determining whether the tab image dimensions exceed the maximum tab dimensions.

24. The printing system according to claim 23, further comprising:

means for scaling said stored tab image based on the means for adjusting the stored tab image dimensions.

25. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for displaying at least part of the image data for selecting the tab image.

26. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for editing the sequentially stored processed tab images.

27. The printing system according to claim 15, further comprising:

means for retrieving said stored processed tab image;

means for applying said retrieved tab image to a tab page image, said tab page image being stored in said storage means.

28. The printing system according to claim 27, further comprising:

means for printing said tab page image on a sheet of tab stock.