System and method for job set up summarizing in reprographic apparatus

• US 5,614,993 A
• Filed: 03/03/1995
• Issued: 03/25/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Beaudet, Douglas B., Smith, Barbara S., Altrieth, Frederick E. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Fred L.
• Application Number:
  US08/398,231
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 355/200, 355/202, 355/204, 355/209, 345/173, 395/113, 395/155
• US Class Current: 399/81
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens

Abstract

An improved summarization system for reproduction apparatus of the kind having a plurality of operating features for producing copy jobs. The apparatus includes an operator control communication interface, a display device for producing feature selection screens and signals indicative of selected features and a memory and control for addressing screens to the display device and controlling the apparatus to produce copies. The summarization system is operatively associated with the memory and control for generating and addressing onto the display device, separate screens summarizing, respectively, selected standard operating features, selected job level operating features, and selected page level operating features, without display of non-selected operating features.

Claims

1. Reproduction apparatus having a plurality of operating features for producing copy jobs, said apparatus comprising:

(i) an operator control communication interface including display means for producing a plurality of display screens having operating feature selections and means for producing signals representative of operating feature selections on such screens;

(ii) memory and control means for generating and addressing such screens onto such display means, for receiving and storing such selections signals and for controlling said apparatus to produce a copy job in accord with such selections signals;

(iii) summary means, operatively associated with said memory and control means, for generating and addressing said display means with separate display screens summarizing respectively, selected standard operating features, selected job level operating features and selected page level operating features.

2. The invention defined in claim 1 wherein the screens generated by said summary means comprise selected operating features lists, without display of non-selected features.

3. The invention defined in claim 1 further comprising a display navigation system, operatively associated with said memory and control and said summary means, for accessing display of different level summary displays directly from the feature selection process at the same level.

4. The invention defined in claim 3 wherein said navigation system enables access to a job level selections summary, directly from a job level feature selection screen.

5. The invention defined in claim 4 wherein said navigation system accesses an overview summary screen if an operator summary request occurs from a job level features selections screen, with no job level features having been selected.

6. The invention defined in claim 5 wherein said overview summary screen comprises a listing of standard level features selections and an abbreviated listing of job and page level features selections.

7. The invention defined in claim 3 wherein said navigation system enables access to a page level selections summary directly from a page level feature selections screen.

8. The invention defined in claim 7 wherein said navigation system accesses an overview summary screen if an operator summary request occurs from a page level features selections screen, with no page levels having been selected.

9. The invention defined in claim 8 wherein said overview summary screen comprises a listing of standard features selections and an abbreviated listing of job and page level features.

10. In a reproduction apparatus having a plurality of operating features, a display device for producing screens listing such features for job selection, means for generating signals representing selected features and memory and control means for storing such signals and controlling said apparatus in accord therewith to produce copy jobs, the method for summarizing user selected operating features, comprising the steps of:

(i) displaying an overview summarization screen comprising the standard operating features selected for a job, without non-selected standard operating features; and

(ii) displaying a job level summarization screen comprising the job level operating features selected for a job, without non-selected job level operating features.

11. The method defined in claim 10 further comprising:

(i) displaying a page level summarization screen comprising the page level operating features selected for a job, without non-selected page level operating features.

12. The method defined in claim 11 wherein said overview summarization screen displaying includes display of an abbreviated list of the job level and page level operating features selected for the job.

13. The method defined in claim 10 wherein display of said overview summarization screen is accessed directly, in response to a summary request, during operator selection of standard level operating features.

14. The method defined in claim 10 wherein display of said job level summarization screen is accessed directly, in response to a summary request, during operator selection of job level operating features.

15. The method defined in claim 11 wherein display of said page level summarization screen is accessed directly, in response to a summary request, during operator selection of job level operating features.

16. The method defined in claim 15 wherein said overview summary screen is accessed in response to a summarization request during page or job level selections, if no respective operating features are then selected.

17. Reproduction apparatus having a plurality of operating features for producing copy jobs, said apparatus comprising:

(i) an operator control communication interface including display means for producing a plurality of display screens having operating feature selections;

(ii) memory and control means for generating and addressing such screens onto said display means, for receiving and storing selections signals and for controlling said apparatus to produce a copy job in accord with such selections signals;

(iii) compendium means, operatively associated with said memory and control means, for generating and addressing said display means with separate display screens respectively including summarizations of selected standard operating features, selected job level operating features and selected page level operating features.

18. The invention defined in claim 17 wherein the screens generated by said compendium means comprise selected operating features lists, without display of non-selected features.

19. The invention defined in claim 17 further comprising a display navigation system, operatively associated with said memory and control and said compendium means, for accessing display of different level summarization displays, directly from the feature selection process at the same level.

20. Reproduction apparatus having a plurality of operating features for producing copy jobs, said apparatus comprising:

(i) an operator control communication interface, including display means, for producing a plurality of display screens having operating feature selections;

(ii) memory and control mean for storing signals representative of the operating features selected for a copy job and controlling said apparatus to effect a copy job according to such stored signals;

(iii) compendium means, operatively associated with said memory and control means, for generating and addressing said display means with a plurality of display screens respectively including different selected operating feature summarizations.

21. The invention defined in claim 20 wherein said plurality of screens comprise selected operating features lists, without display of non-selected features.