Image processing apparatus, method for displaying preview image, and recording medium

• US 9,374,482 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Nishioka, Daiki
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnes, Ted
• Application Number:
  US14/255,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00381 Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures manual input means, e.g. digitisers, writing tablets H04N1/00392; gesture input to computers G06F3/017; recognition algorithms G06V40/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling

Abstract

When an input unit receives a predetermined operation on a preview image during execution of a real-time preview, an image processing apparatus stores information that specifies the preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received, in a specific information storage unit. The image processing apparatus executes a first preview display of displaying a preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received or a preview image for which the predetermined operation has not been received among preview images of a job after completion of the real-time preview, based on the information stored in the specific information storage unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image reader configured to read a plurality of images, wherein the images correspond to pages of a job;

a preview image generator configured to, based on image information of the plurality of images input with said image reader, generate a plurality of preview images of the image information, each preview image corresponding to a page of the job;

a real-time preview controller configured to separately display each preview image of said plurality of preview images in real-time as said image information of said job is input by said image reader;

an input device configured to receive input of information;

a specific information storage unit configured to, upon receiving a predetermined operation on said preview image during execution of said real-time preview, store information that specifies said preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received; and

a first preview controller configured to execute a first preview display of displaying only those preview images for which said predetermined operation has been received, wherein the first preview display is executed after completion of said real-time preview, based on the information stored in said specific information storage unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the real-time preview controller switches the first preview display for each predetermined time period measured by a timer during execution of said real-time preview.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific information storage unit stores the information based on a gesture made on said input device.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second preview controller configured to execute a second preview display of displaying said preview image for which said predetermined operation has been received and said preview image for which said predetermined operation has not been received among preview images of said job in manners different from each other after completion of said real-time preview, based on the information stored in said specific information storage unit.

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

said input device receives, as said predetermined operation, at least one of instructions including deleting, rotating, scaling, and grouping on said image information, and

when said preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received is displayed, at least one of said first preview controller and said second preview controller displays said preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received in a manner corresponding to the predetermined operation input to said input unit.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a gesture information storage unit configured to store a gesture made on said input device in association with a type of image processing,

wherein said input device receives input of a gesture as said predetermined operation for said preview image,

for said preview image for which the gesture has been input to said input device, said specific information storage unit stores the type of image processing corresponding to the gesture input to said input device, in association with the preview image, and

when said preview image for which said predetermined operation has been received is displayed, at least one of said first preview controller and said second preview controller displays said preview image for which said predetermined operation has been received in a manner corresponding to the type of image processing stored in association with the preview image.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the gesture input to said input device includes at least one of instructions including a single touch for selecting said preview image, a flick operation for deleting image information corresponding to said preview image, a pinch-in/pinch-out operation for scaling up/down image information corresponding to said preview image, a multi-touch operation for grouping by the number of touches, and an operation of inputting a semicircular line for rotating image information.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said input device receives input of an instruction for switching display between said first preview display and said second preview display.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said preview image generator executes image processing on said preview image for display in the manner corresponding to said predetermined operation, in parallel to execution of the real-time preview by said real-time preview controller.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a preview controller configured to select a display to be executed between said first preview display and said second preview display in accordance with the type of the predetermined operation input to said input device.

11. A method for an image processing apparatus to display a preview image of image information input by an image reader reading an image based on input of information to an input device executed by a computer of said image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

reading a plurality of images, wherein the images correspond to pages of a job;

based on the image information input by said step of reading, generating a plurality of preview images of the image information, each preview image corresponding to a page of the job;

as the image information of the job is input, executing a real-time preview for making a separate preview display of each of said plurality of preview images in real-time;

when said input device receives a predetermined operation on a preview image during execution of said real-time preview, storing information that specifies said preview image for which said predetermined operation has been received; and

executing a first preview display of displaying only those preview images for which said predetermined operation has been received, wherein said first preview display is executed after completion of said real-time preview, based on the information that specifies said preview image for which said predetermined operation has been received.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first preview display is switched for each predetermined time period measured by a timer during execution of said real-time preview.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the storing information step is performed based on a gesture made on said input device.

14. A non-transitory recording medium recorded thereon a computer-readable program for causing a computer to execute the method as defined in claim 11.