Image processing apparatus and control method for reducing an amount of data for a plurality of languages

• US 9,210,285 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Okayama, Noritsugu, Shoji, Fumio, Ikuno, Takao, Odaira, Masahiro, Katahira, Yoshiaki, Fujino, Toru, Kasuya, Kenji, Niikura, Yasuhito
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Benjamin J
• Application Number:
  US11/571,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20080252919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,808 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0046 Software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems

Abstract

This invention prevents repetitive storage of identical character string data, and efficiently uses a storage area. To accomplish this, a facsimile apparatus 8 has an NIC 1 as a network interface, and also has a display unit 4c as a display means for displaying an image as a user interface, a main body controller 3 including a memory as a storage means for storing character string data, a display controller 4b as an image generating means for generating an image to be displayed on the display means, by using the character string data stored in the memory, and an HTTP server as a display data generating means for generating an HTML file as display data described in a markup language by using the character string data stored in the memory, in accordance with a browsing request input via the network interface.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that includes a network interface, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit adapted to display image data as a user interface;

a storage unit adapted to store a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages in a different memory address;

an image generating unit adapted to generate the image data to be displayed by said display unit, by reading out from said storage unit a character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data, based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

a markup data generating unit adapted to store template data related to the message identifier, and to generate markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out from the storage unit based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface; and

an HTTP server adapted to transmit the markup data generated by said markup data generating unit to another terminal, in response to the browsing request input from said other terminal via said network interface.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said markup data generating unit stores a language setting corresponding to the other terminal that transmitted the browsing request, specifies the other terminal as a transmission source of the browsing request, reads out the language setting corresponding to the other terminal, and generates the image data by reading out the character string corresponding to the readout language setting, from said storage unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when accepting a designation of the language setting from the other terminal as the transmission source of the browsing request, said markup data generating unit stores the language setting in association with information identifying the other terminal.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said image generating unit sets the language to be use in the image data for use in an image to be displayed by said display unit, and

if the designation of the language setting from the other terminal as the transmission source of the browsing request is not accepted, said markup data generating unit generates markup data by reading out the character string in the language corresponding to the language setting set in said image generating unit.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image generating unit sets the language to be used in the image data for use in an image to be displayed by said display unit.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display unit displays, by using a browser, the markup data generated by said markup data generating unit.

7. A control method of an image processing apparatus that includes a network interface and a storage unit that stores a plurality of character strings, the method comprising:

generating image data by using a character string stored in the storage unit based on a memory address derived on the basis of a message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

displaying the image data as a user interface;

inputting an image browsing request via the network interface;

generating markup data described in a markup language by using the character string stored in the storage unit, in response to the inputting of the browsing request;

transmitting, by an HTTP server, the markup data to another terminal, in response to the inputting of the browsing request,

wherein the storage unit stores a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages, in a different memory address, and

said storage unit stores template data related to the message identifier, and the generating of the markup data includes reading out, from the storage unit, the character string associated with the message identifier and expressed in a predetermined language, and generating the markup data by using the readout character string and the template data.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein said displaying of the image data includes displaying, by using a browser, the generated markup data.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program of an image processing apparatus that includes a network interface and a storage unit that stores a plurality of character strings, the control program causing the image processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

generating image data by using a character string stored by the storage unit based on a memory address derived on the basis of a message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

displaying the image data as a user interface;

inputting an image browsing request via the network interface;

generating markup data described in a markup language by using the character string stored in the storage unit, in response to the inputting of the browsing request;

transmitting, by an HTTP server, the markup data to another terminal, in response to the inputting of the browsing request,

wherein the storage unit stores a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written different languages, in a different memory address, and

said storage unit stores template data related to the message identifier, and the generating of the markup data includes reading out, from the storage unit, a character string associated with the message identifier and expressed in a predetermined language, and generating the markup data by using the readout character string and the template data.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein said displaying of the image data includes displaying, by using a browser, the generated markup data.

11. An image processing apparatus that includes a network interface, the apparatus comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium adapted to store a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages in a different memory address;

an image generating unit adapted to generate image data to be displayed by a display unit, by reading out from said storage medium a character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

a markup data generating unit adapted to store template data related to the message identifier, and to generate markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out from the storage medium based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface; and

an HTTP server adapted to transmit the markup data generated by said markup data generating unit to another terminal, in response to the browsing request input from said other terminal via said network interface.

12. A method performed by an image processing apparatus that includes a network interface, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages in a different memory address;

generating image data, by reading out a character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

storing template data related to the message identifier;

generating markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface; and

transmitting, by an HTTP server, the generated markup data to another terminal, in response to the browsing request input from said other terminal via said network interface.

13. An image processing apparatus that includes a network interface, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit adapted to display image data as a user interface;

a storage unit adapted to store a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages in a different memory address;

an image generating unit adapted to generate the image data to be displayed by said display unit, by reading outfrom said storage unit a character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit; and

a markup data generating unit adapted to store template data related to the message identifier, and to generate markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out from the storage unit based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface,

wherein said display unit displays, by using a browser, the markup data provided via an HTTP server.

14. A control method of an image processing apparatus that includes a network interface and a storage unit that stores a plurality of character strings, the method comprising:

displaying image data as a user interface;

storing a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages in a different memory address;

generating the image data to be displayed by said display unit, by reading outa character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

storing template data related to the message identifier; and

generating markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out from the storage unit based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface, wherein

the displaying of the image data includes displaying, by using a browser, the markup data provided via an HTTP server.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program of an image processing apparatus that includes a network interface and a storage unit that stores a plurality of character strings, the control method causing the image processing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

displaying image data as a user interface;

storing a plurality of tables each has a common set of message identifiers and a plurality of character strings written in different languages, in a different memory address;

generating the image data to be displayed by said display unit, by reading out a character string expressed in the language to be used in the image data based on a memory address derived on the basis of the message identifier and a language to be used in the image data, and using an HTML file having at least one of the message identifier and the character string read out from the storage unit;

storing template data related to the message identifier; and

generating markup data described in a markup language based on the template data and the character string, wherein the character string is read out from the storage unit based on the message identifier and the language to be used in the image data, in response to a browsing request input via said network interface,

wherein the displaying of the image data includes displaying, by using a browser, the markup data provided via an HTTP server.