Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and information displaying method thereof

• US 8,947,435 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2010
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jung-ha, Jeong, Yong-sik
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhai, Kyle
• Application Number:
  US12/923,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20110148914A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• Field of Search: 345/440
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Disclosed are a host apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus and an information displaying method thereof. An information displaying method of a host apparatus which receives a data of at least one image forming apparatus including: receiving a data of the image forming apparatus; displaying a User Interface (UI) screen including a data area displaying the data by item and a graphic area displaying a graph of the data in the data area; adding a data of an item in the data area to the graphic area; determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable; and graphicalizing and displaying the data of the item added in the graphic area according to the determination result. With this, the host apparatus provides a user with convenience in facilitating graph reprocessing and data expansion as the user needs with regard to a web solution or an application to control information of the image forming apparatus.

Claims

1. An information displaying method of a host apparatus which receives a data of at least one image forming apparatus, comprising:

receiving a data of the image forming apparatus;

displaying a User Interface (UI) screen including a data area displaying the data by item and a graphic area displaying a graph of the data in the data area;

adding a data of an item in the data area to the graphic area;

determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable; and

graphicalizing and displaying the data of the item added in the graphic area based on the determined result,

wherein the determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset graphicalization and determining on a basis of the loaded conditional data, and the conditional data is stored in a form of a table.

2. The information displaying method according to claim 1, wherein the data area displays the received data of the image forming apparatus as at least one column corresponding to the item, and the adding to the graphic area comprises transferring one of at least one column to the graphic area by drag-and-drop.

3. The information displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether there is a graph in the graphic area; and

determining whether the data of the item added and a data present in the graphic area can be grouped if a graph is present, based on a conditional data on grouping, wherein the displaying in the graphic area comprises displaying the present graph and a graph of the added data via integration if the data of the item added and the data present in the graphic area are groupable, and the conditional data on grouping is stored in a form of a table.

4. The information displaying method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying in the graphic area comprises selecting whether to divide the graphic area if the data of the item added and the data present in the graphic area are not groupable.

5. The information displaying method according to claim 4, wherein the displaying in the graphic area comprises dividingly displaying the present graph and the graph of the added data according to the selecting whether to divide.

6. The information displaying method according to claim 5, further comprising determining whether the data of the present graph and the added can be linked, wherein the dividingly displaying comprises displaying the present graph and the graph of the added data to be linked according to the determination result.

7. The information displaying method according to claim 6, wherein the determining whether the data of the present graph and the added data are groupable and linkable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset grouping and a preset linking and determining on a basis of the loaded conditional data.

8. The information displaying method according to claim 4, wherein the displaying in the graphic area comprises renewing the present graph to the graph of the added data and displaying according to the selecting whether to divide.

9. A host apparatus to control at least one image forming apparatus comprising:

a user input unit input with selection by a user;

a communication unit receiving a data of the image forming apparatus;

a storage unit storing the data of the image forming apparatus;

a display displaying a User Interface (UI) screen including a data area displaying the data by item and a graphic area displaying a graph of the data in the data area; and

a controller determining whether a data of an added item can be graphicalized and controlling the display to display the data of the added item via graphicalization according to a determination result if receiving selection by a user that the data of the item in the data area is added to the graphic area,

wherein the determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset graphicalization and determining on a basis of the loaded conditional data, and the conditional data is stored as in a form of a table.

10. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the data area displays the received data of the image forming apparatus as at least one column corresponding to the item, and the user input unit selects to transfer one of at least one column to the graphic area via drag-and-drop.

11. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller determines whether there is a graph in the graphic area, if a graph is present, determines whether the data of the added item and a data present in the graphic area can be grouped based on a conditional data on grouping and the conditional data on grouping stored as in a form of table, and if the data of the added item and the data present in the graphic area are groupable, controls the display to display the present graph and the graph of the added data via integration in the graphic area.

12. The host apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller controls the display to display a message to select whether to divide the graphic area if the data of the item added and the data present in the graphic area are not groupable.

13. The host apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the display dividingly displays the present graph and the graph of the added data in the graphic area according to selection of whether to divide.

14. The host apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller determines whether the data of the present graph and the added data can be linked and displays the present graph and the graph of the added data to be linked in the graphic area according to a determination result.

15. The host apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the storage unit stores a conditional data on a preset grouping and a preset linking, and the controller loads the conditional data on the preset grouping and the preset linking and determines whether the data of the present graph and the added data are groupable and linkable on a basis of the loaded conditional data.

16. The host apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the communication unit communicates with a server in which the data of the image forming apparatus is stored, and the controller controls the communication unit to load a preset conditional data on a grouping and a linking from the server and determines whether the data of the present graph and the added data are groupable and linkable on a basis of the loaded conditional data.

17. The host apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the display renews the present graph to the graph of the added data and display according to selection of whether to divide.

18. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the storage unit stores a conditional data on a preset graphicalization, and the controller loads the conditional data on the preset graphicalization and determines whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable on a basis of the loaded conditional data.

19. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the communication unit communicates with a server in which the data of the image forming apparatus is stored, and the controller loads a preset conditional data on graphicalization from the server and determines whether the data of the present graph and the added data are graphicalizable on a basis of the loaded conditional data.

20. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the data area and the graphic area are overlapped.

21. The host apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the data area and the graphic area are adjustable.

22. An information display method of a data of an item for an image forming apparatus comprising:

displaying a User interface (UI) screen on a display of a host apparatus connectable to the image forming apparatus including displaying the data of the item displaying a graph of the data;

selecting a data of item; and

determining whether the data of the item selected is graphicalizable;

displaying the selected data of the item in a graphical visual form based on the determined result,

wherein the determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset graphicalization and determining on the basis of the loaded conditional data, and the conditional data is stored as in a form of a table.

23. The information display method of claim 22, wherein the selecting the data of the item further comprising:

selecting and moving the selecting data of the item to a predetermined area to display the selected data of item in the visual form.