Information processing device and control method of sharing image data to plural applications

• US 9,348,673 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2014
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Asai, Norihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Andy
• Application Number:
  US14/572,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169391A1
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 719/313, 719/329
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof

Abstract

An information processing device of this disclosure has: a data sharing unit capable of sharing, the sharing being a process of causing an application, selected as data output destination from a plurality of applications, to process data output from a data output source application; a display unit; an operation unit; and a processor that, when executing instructions, performs: acquiring image data; displaying identification images for identifying the plurality of applications on the display unit; and receiving an input designating N identification images of the plurality of identification images displayed on the display unit from the operation unit, N being natural number greater than 1; and causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data to each of N data output destination application, each of N data output destination application respectively corresponding to each of the N identification images.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which is read in an information processing device having:

a data sharing unit capable of sharing, the sharing being a process of causing an application, selected as data output destination from a plurality of applications, to process data output from a data output source application;

a display;

an human interface device; and

a processor,

the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the information processing device to perform;

acquiring image data;

displaying identification images for identifying each of the plurality of applications on the display;

receiving an input designating N identification images of the plurality of identification images displayed on the display from the human interface device, N being natural number greater than 1; and

causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data to each of N data output destination application, each of N data output destination application respectively corresponding to each of the N identification images.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of applications comprises an output application outputting the image data to another device which is other than the information processing device, and,

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform:

receiving an input designating a format of output image data from the human interface device, output image data being data to be output to the other device by the output application in a case where the output application is included in the N data output destination application,

causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the image in the received format to the output application.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform searching a specific application satisfying a specific search condition from the plurality of applications;

and

wherein each of the identification images displayed on the display are respectively corresponding to each of applications satisfying the specific search condition.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 3, wherein the specific search condition includes at least one of a predetermined type of processing and a predetermined type of a format.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 3, wherein the instructions causes the information processing device further to perform receiving an input designating at least one of a predetermined type of processing and a predetermined type of a format from the human interface device, and

wherein the specific search condition includes the at least one of the processing and the format designated by the input received from the human interface device.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, wherein the instructions causes the information processing device further to perform serial data processing comprising;

acquiring process of acquiring ith processed image data, ith processed image data being an image data processed by an ith data output destination application, i being a natural number equal to or larger than 1 and equal to or smaller than N−

1; and

causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the ith processed image data to (i+1)th data output destination application,

repeatedly up to an Nth data output destination application.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of applications comprises an output application outputting the image data to another device which is other than the information processing device, and

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform in a case where the output application is included in the N data output destination applications, setting a processing sequence, in which the acquired image data is shared to the output application later than another application.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of applications comprises an editing application to edit the image data, and

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform in a case where the (i+1)th data output destination application is the editing application and is able to process data in a reversibly compressed format or uncompressed format, causing the sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data which is in the reversibly compressed format or uncompressed format to the (i+1)th data output destination application.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 6, wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform:

displaying, on the display, a processing sequence receiving screen for receiving an input of a sequence in which the acquired image data is shared to the N data output destination applications to be serially.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9,

wherein there is a plurality of types of the processing to be executed by the applications, and

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform in a case where a plurality of applications of the same type is included in the N data output destination applications, displaying the processing sequence receiving screen for receiving an input of a sequence in which the acquired image data is shared to the plurality of applications of the same type.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10,

wherein the plurality of applications comprises an editing application for editing the image data, and

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform in a case where a plurality of the editing applications is included in the N data output destination applications, displaying the processing sequence receiving screen for receiving an input of a sequence in which the acquired image data is shared to the plurality of editing applications.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform, after executing processing by an ith data output destination application, i being a natural number equal to or larger than 1 and equal to or smaller than N−

1, in a case where response information indicating that the processing is successful is acquired from the ith data output destination application, causing the sharing unit to perform repeatedly sharing the acquired image data which is processed by the ith data output destination application to an (i+1)th data output destination application, up to an Nth data output destination application.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform:

extracting a supporting application having a configuration outputting the response information from the plurality of applications; and

displaying the identification image for identifying the extracted supporting applications on the display.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 6,

wherein the N data output destination applications comprise at least two editing application for editing the image data,

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform, when sharing unit is caused to perform sharing the acquired image data to ith data output destination application, which is the editing application, in a case where the (i+1)th data output destination application is the editing application, displaying, on the display, an input receiving screen for receiving an input indicating whether or not to cause the sharing unit to perform sharing the ith image data to the (i+1)th data output destination application, and

wherein, in response to receiving, from the human interface device, an input designating causing the sharing unit to perform sharing the ith image data to the (i+1)th data output destination application, causing the sharing the ith image data to the (i+1)th data output destination application.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13,

wherein the N data output destination applications comprise at least one editing application for editing the image data,

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform:

after causing the sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data to ith data output destination application, which is the editing application, is performed, in a case where response information indicating that ith processed image data is generated is acquired from the ith data output destination application, displaying, on the display, a first instruction receiving screen comprising an image expressed by the ith processed image data; and

in response to receiving, from the human interface device, an input designating sharing instruction, causing the sharing unit to perform sharing the ith processed image data to the (i+1)th data output destination application.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13,

wherein the N data output destination applications comprise at least one editing application for editing the image data,

wherein the instructions cause the information processing device further to perform when causing the sharing unit the acquired image data to the ith data output destination application, which is the editing application, is performed and the response information is acquired from the ith data output destination application, in a case where it is not possible to acquire access information for accessing the generated ith processed image data, displaying, on the display, a second instruction receiving screen comprising an image expressed by recently generated image data that is recently generated in the information processing device;

and

in response to receiving, from the human interface device, an input designating sharing instruction, causing the sharing unit to perform sharing the recently generated image data to the (i+1)th data output destination application.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the information processing device further comprises a communication interface capable of performing communication an external device, and

wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device further to perform operations of acquiring the image data from an image processing apparatus capable of executing scanning processing of scanning one or more documents to generate one or more image data, through the communication interface.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1,

wherein the information processing device further comprises a non-volatile storage unit configured to store therein a variety of data, and

wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device further to cause the storage unit to store processed ith image data, which is data after processing by an ith data output destination application, and causes an (i+1)th data output destination application to process the processed ith image data stored in the storage unit.

19. An information processing device having:

a data sharing unit capable of sharing, the sharing being a process of causing an application, selected as data output destination from a plurality of applications, to process data output from a data output source application;

a display;

an human interface device; and

a processor that, when executing instructions, performs;

acquiring image data;

displaying identification images for identifying the plurality of applications on the display; and

receiving an input designating N identification images of the plurality of identification images displayed on the display from the human interface device, N being natural number greater than 1; and

causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data to each of N data output destination application, each of N data output destination application respectively corresponding to each of the N identification images.

20. A control method of an information processing device having a data sharing unit causing an application, selected as data output destination from a plurality of applications, to process data output from a data output source application, the information processing device comprising a display and an human interface device,

the control method comprising:

acquiring image data;

displaying identification images for identifying the each of plurality of applications on the display;

receiving an input designating N identification images of the plurality of identification images displayed on the display from the human interface device, N being natural number greater than 1; and

causing the data sharing unit to perform sharing the acquired image data to each of N data output destination application, each of N data output destination application respectively corresponding to each of the N identification images.