Printing system for displaying digital images

• US 9,942,424 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2015
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Océ-Technologies B.V. (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Océ-Technologies B.V. (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Krikke, Nanne, Meessen, Andrea E. J.
• Primary Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US14/631,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20150172475A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 715803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device

Abstract

A method of displaying a digital image having a high aspect ratio on a user interface screen connected to a control unit of a printing system includes the steps of determining a first part of the digital image, which part includes one end of the digital image in a longitudinal direction; determining a second part of the digital image, which part includes the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction; displaying the first part and the second part simultaneously on the user interface screen; and further displaying the remaining part of the digital image in a suppressed manner or a compressed manner in-between the first part and the second part at the user interface screen. A printing system includes a control unit, which includes a memory unit for storing a digital image, and a user interface screen for displaying the digital image, the control unit being configured to execute the method.

Claims

1. A printing system for printing digital images, the printing system comprising:

a processor;

a user interface screen configured to display a digital image intended to be printed by the printing system, the digital image having a width, a length and an extreme aspect ratio, being a proportion between the width and the length;

the processor being configured to determine a first part of the digital image, the first part comprising one end of the digital image in a longitudinal direction; and

the processor being configured to determine a second part of the digital image, the second part comprising the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction,

wherein the processor is configured to control the user interface screen to simultaneously display the first part and the second part in a same order from left to right in the digital image with respect to the length of the digital image and to further display a remaining part of the digital image between the first part and the second part in a compressed manner in-between the first part and the second part or to suppress the remaining part of the digital image, and

wherein facing edges of the first part and the second part are shaped according to a same curve.

2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to replace the remaining part by a separation image.

3. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein a wave form is part of the facing edges of the first part and the second part.

4. A method of displaying a digital image intended to be printed by a printing system, the digital image having a width, a length and an extreme aspect ratio, being a proportion between the width and the length on a user interface screen of the printing system, the method comprising the steps of:

determining a first part of the digital image, the first part comprising one end of the digital image in a longitudinal direction;

determining a second part of the digital image, the second part comprising the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction;

simultaneously displaying on the user interface screen the first part and the second part in a same order from left to right in the digital image with respect to the length of the digital image; and

further displaying a remaining part of the digital image between the first part and the second part in a compressed manner in-between the first part and the second part or suppressing the remaining part of the digital image,

wherein facing edges of the first part and the second part are shaped according to a same curve.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of replacing the remaining part by a separation image.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

dragging a border area between the first part and the second part displayed on the user interface screen towards the one end of the first part, when the one end of the first part is farthest away from the border area or towards the other end of the second part, when the other end of the second part is farthest away from the border area;

re-determining the first part and the second part based on the amount of dragging, leaving a total size of the first part and the second part invariable; and

displaying the re-determined first part and second part on the user interface screen,

wherein the re-determined first part comprises the one end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction and the re-determined second part comprises the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction.

7. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

touching one of the first part and the second part displayed on the user interface screen;

re-determining the touched part by zooming in at the touched part;

re-determining the non-touched part by zooming in at the non-touched part in a same degree as zooming in at the touched part; and

displaying the re-determined touched part and the re-determined non-touched part on the user interface screen,

wherein the re-determined first part comprises the one end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction and the re-determined second part comprises the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction.

8. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

touching one of the first part and the second part displayed on the user interface screen;

re-determining the touched part by zooming in at the touched part;

leaving the non-touched part unaltered; and

displaying the re-determined touched part and the unaltered non-touched part on the user interface screen,

wherein the re-determined touched part comprises the one end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction, if the touched part is equal to the first part, and wherein the re-determined touched part comprises the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction, if the touched part is equal to the second part.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the first part and the second part are determined such that facing sides of the first part and second part on the user interface screen have counterpart shapes.

10. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed on a processor executes the method according to claim 4.

11. The method according to claim 4, wherein a wave form is part of the facing edges of the first part and the second part.