Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same

• US 8,472,062 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2011
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Ryousuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Popovici, Dov
• Application Number:
  US13/389,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20120206766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1254 Automatic configuration, e.g. by driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing

Abstract

Document data to be printed is decided from document data of a plurality of pages, based on an inclination of an information processing apparatus detected by a sensor for detecting the inclination of the information processing apparatus. The decided document data to be printed is transmitted to a printing apparatus in accordance with an instruction to transmit the document data to be printed to the printing apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for transmitting a print job to a printing apparatus, comprising:

display means for displaying document data;

detection means for detecting an inclination of the information processing apparatus;

instruction means for providing an instruction to transmit the document data to be printed to the printing apparatus;

decision means for deciding the document data to be printed from the document data of a plurality of pages, based on the inclination of the information processing apparatus detected by the detection means; and

transmission means for transmitting to the printing apparatus the document data to be printed decided by the decision means, in response to the instruction provided by the instruction means.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

collision detection means for detecting a collision between the printing apparatus and the information processing apparatus,

wherein the instruction means provides the instruction to transmit the document data to be printed to the printing apparatus, based on the detection by the collision detection means.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

shake detection means for detecting application of a shake having a first predetermined value or more to the information processing apparatus; and

determination means for determining whether or not a distance between the information processing apparatus and the printing apparatus is a second predetermined value or less when the shake detection means has detected the shake having the first predetermined value or more,

wherein the instruction means provides the instruction to transmit the document data to be printed to the printing apparatus, in a case that the determination means has determined that the distance between the information processing apparatus and the printing apparatus is the second predetermined value or less.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus has a first operating mode for browsing the document data and a second operating mode for designating the document data to be printed,

in the first operating mode, a page or the pages of the document data are displayed on the display means in order of page or in reverse order of page, depending on whether the information processing apparatus is inclined backward or forward, and

the decision means decides, in the second operating mode, whether the page of the document data to be printed is set to a page preceding a currently displayed page or a page following the currently displayed page, depending on whether the information processing apparatus is inclined in a right direction or in a left direction, to display the page of the document data to be printed on the display means.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

designation means for designating a number of pages of the document data to be printed on one sheet of paper; and

display control means for changing a layout of a page or the pages of the document data to be displayed on the display means, depending on the number of pages designated by the designation means.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

means for changing a time required to update each page displayed on the display means, depending on a magnitude of the inclination of the information processing apparatus detected by the detection means.

7. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus which includes a display unit for displaying document data and transmits a print job to a printing apparatus, comprising:

a detection step of detecting an inclination of the information processing apparatus;

an instruction step of providing an instruction to transmit the document data to be printed to the printing apparatus;

a decision step of deciding the document data to be printed from the document data of a plurality of pages, based on the inclination of the information processing apparatus detected in the detection step; and

a transmission step of transmitting to the printing apparatus the document data to be printed decided in the decision step, in response to the instruction provided in the instruction step.