Image forming system having transfer device for communicating between image forming apparatus and image processing apparatus
First Claim
1. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus as well as a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
- an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information;
an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, anda control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus,wherein said image-processing apparatus subjects the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and outputs the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus through the transfer device.
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Abstract
In an image-forming system, when the user inputs an instruction for image processing to an input section in a digital copying machine, the control section of the digital copying machine outputs image information of a document to a host computer. The host computer carries out a predetermined image process on the inputted image information, and outputs the processed image information to the digital copying machine through a transferring device. The control section of the digital copying machine supplies the processed image information to an image-recording section, and the image-recording section forms a visual image based on the image information. With this arrangement, merely by installing necessary processing functions in the host computer, it becomes possible to eliminate the need for purchasing a new digital copying machine to replace the older one with relatively outdated functions, and also to reduce the burden on users on an economic basis.
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37 Claims
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1. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus as well as a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, and a control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus, wherein said image-processing apparatus subjects the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and outputs the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus through the transfer device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus as well as a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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an image-processing section for carrying out predetermined image processing on the image information; an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, and a control section which, in accordance with a type of image processing that has been specified by the input section, makes a selection as to whether the image processing for the image information is carried out in the image-processing section of the image-forming apparatus or in the image-processing apparatus, and upon selection of the process in the image-forming apparatus, supplies the image information to the image-processing section of the image-forming apparatus, while, upon selection of the process in the image-processing apparatus, it outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image information processed in the image-processing apparatus to the image-recording section; wherein said image-processing apparatus subjects the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and outputs the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus through the transfer device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus, a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, and a suitability judging device, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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a display section; an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, and a control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus, wherein;
said image-processing apparatus subjects the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and outputs the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus through the transfer device, andsaid suitability judging device makes a judgement as to whether or not it is suitable to process the processed image information, which has been processed by the image-processing apparatus, in the image-recording section of the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the image-processing apparatus to perform the processing, as well as allowing the display section to display the results of the judgement. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus, a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, and a history-managing device, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, and a control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus, wherein;
said image-processing apparatus subjects the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and outputs through the transfer device the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing, andsaid history-managing device stores the contents of the image processing that has been carried out by the image-processing apparatus as history information related to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus, a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, and a history-managing device, said image-processing apparatus being designed to carry out predetermined image processing on image information that has inputted thereto from the image-forming apparatus through the transferring device, and to output the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing, through the transferring device, said history-managing device being installed in the image-processing apparatus and designed to store the contents of the image processing that has been carried out by the image-processing apparatus as history information related to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing, and to transfer the history information to the image-forming apparatus through the transferring device, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing; a control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus; a request-status managing section for storing the contents of the image processing that has been requested to the image-processing apparatus as history information; and a confirming section for combining the history information stored in the request-status managing section and the history information that has been transferred from the history-managing device into composite information in a comparable manner, and for visualizing the composite information so as to allow the user to confirm it. - View Dependent Claims (35)
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36. An image-forming system which has at least one image-forming apparatus and one image-processing apparatus, a transfer device that allows both of the apparatuses to communicate with each other so as to transfer information between them, and a history-managing device, said image-forming apparatus comprising:
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an image-recording section for forming a visible image based on image information; an input section for inputting an instruction with respect to image processing, and a control section that outputs the image information to the image-processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction from the input section for carrying out the image processing in the image-processing apparatus, as well as supplying the image-recording section with the image information that has been processed in the image-processing apparatus, said image-processing section comprising; an image-processing section for subjecting the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device to predetermined image processing and for outputting through the transfer device the resulting image information to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing; and a specific-image judging section for making a judgement as to whether or not the image information that has been inputted through the transfer device is coincident with any of pieces of image information of images that have been registered as specific images, wherein said history-managing device stores the contents of the image processing that has been carried out by the image-processing apparatus as history information related to the image-forming apparatus that originally requested the processing, and also stores the image information that has been judged identical to any of the specific images by the specific-image judging section as well as information for identifying the image-forming apparatus that has requested the image processing of the specific image. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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