Image forming apparatus and host computer capable of sharing terminology, method of sharing terminology and terminology sharing system

• US 20060064514A1
• Filed: 09/06/2005
• Published: 03/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Hyung-jong
• Granted Patent: US 8,959,254 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/10 Program control for peripheral devices G06F13/14 - G06F13/42 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

A host apparatus capable of sharing terminology information and a peripheral device, a method of sharing the terminology information, and a terminology information sharing system. The host apparatus includes a communication module to provide a communication interface between the host apparatus and the peripheral device, an information sharing unit to share terminology information related to a plurality of functions of the peripheral device, and a user interface unit to operate the plurality of functions of the peripheral device and to display the shared terminology information related to each of the plurality of functions. Accordingly, the peripheral device and the host apparatus use identical terminology information related to the functions of the peripheral device.

Claims

1. A host apparatus capable of sharing terminology information, comprising:

a communication module to provide a communication interface between the host apparatus and a peripheral device;

an information sharing unit to share terminology information related to a plurality of functions of the peripheral device; and

a user interface unit to operate the plurality of functions of the peripheral device and to display the shared terminology information related to each of the plurality of functions.

2. The host apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a first controlling unit to request the peripheral device to load the terminology information from the peripheral device to the host apparatus, to control the communication module and the information sharing unit to share the terminology information loaded from the peripheral device, and to control the user interface unit to display the shared terminology information related to each of the plurality of functions.

3. The host apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information sharing unit stores the terminology information therein and the peripheral device requests the information sharing unit to load the terminology information from the information sharing unit to the peripheral unit and stores the terminology information loaded from the information sharing unit.

4. The host apparatus of claim 3, wherein the peripheral device includes:

a communication unit to communicate with the communication module of the host apparatus to provide the communication interface between the host apparatus and the peripheral device;

a loading requesting unit to request the information sharing unit to load the terminology information stored in the information sharing unit to the peripheral device;

a loading storing unit to store the terminology information loaded from the information sharing unit;

an operating panel unit to operate the plurality of functions of the peripheral device and to display the terminology information stored in the loading storing unit and related to the plurality of functions; and

a second controlling unit to control the operating panel unit to display the terminology information to match with corresponding functions.

5. The host apparatus of claim 1, wherein the peripheral device comprises one of a fax, a copier, a multifunctional device, and an image forming apparatus.

6. A host apparatus that communicates with a peripheral device which displays an operation menu using predetermined terminology to control operations of the peripheral device, the host apparatus comprising:

an information sharing unit to load the predetermined terminology from the peripheral device and store the predetermined terminology; and

a peripheral device driver unit to display a driver menu using the loaded terminology such that the driver menu uses the same terminology as the operation menu of the peripheral device.

7. The host apparatus of claim 6, wherein the information sharing unit loads terminology information corresponding to the loaded terminology and the peripheral device driver arranges the loaded terminology in the driver menu according to the terminology position information.

8. The host apparatus of claim 7, wherein the terminology information comprises indexes assigned to the loaded terminology and corresponding to fields of the driver menu.

9. A host apparatus that communicates with a peripheral device which displays a menu to control operations of the peripheral device, the host apparatus comprising:

a storage unit to store predetermined terminology information corresponding to the operations of the peripheral device;

a GUI (graphic user interface) generating unit to generate a GUI using the stored terminology information to control the operations of the peripheral device; and

an information sharing unit to transmit the stored terminology information to the peripheral device to be used by the peripheral device to display the menu of the peripheral device.

10. The host apparatus of claim 9, wherein the terminology information comprises predetermined terminologies corresponding to the operations of the peripheral device and position information corresponding to each of the predetermined terminologies to instruct the GUI generating unit and the peripheral unit how to arrange the predetermined terminologies to generate the GUI and the menu, respectively.

11. An image forming device that communicates with a host apparatus which displays a graphic use interface (GUI) to control the image forming device, the image forming device comprising:

an image forming unit to form an image;

a storage unit to store predetermined terminology information corresponding to settings of the image forming unit therein;

an operating panel unit to display a menu using the predetermined terminology information to control the image forming unit; and

an information sharing unit to transmit the predetermined terminology information to the host apparatus to be used by the host apparatus to display the GUI of the host apparatus.

12. An image forming device that communicates with a host apparatus which displays a driver menu using predetermined terminology corresponding to settings of the image forming device to drive the image forming device, the image forming device comprising:

an image forming unit to form an image;

an information sharing unit to load the predetermined terminology from the host apparatus and to store the loaded terminology; and

an operating panel unit to generate and display an operation menu using the loaded predetermined terminology to control the image forming unit such that the operation menu uses the same terminology as the driver menu of the host apparatus.

13. The image forming device of claim 12, wherein the information sharing unit loads terminology position information corresponding to the loaded predetermined terminology from the host apparatus and the operating panel unit arranges the loaded predetermined terminology in the operation menu according to the loaded terminology position information.

14. A method of sharing terminology information, comprising:

sharing terminology information related to a plurality of functions of a peripheral device with the peripheral device;

generating a user interface displaying the shared terminology information related to the plurality of the functions when displaying of the shared terminology information is requested;

selecting one of the functions by selecting corresponding shared terminology information displayed in the user interface; and

requesting the peripheral device to perform the selected function.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in the sharing of the terminology information comprises:

requesting the peripheral device to load the terminology information from the peripheral device; and

storing the terminology information loaded from the peripheral device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein in the sharing of the terminology information comprises:

loading stored terminology information to the peripheral device to share the stored terminology information in response to a request from the peripheral device to load the stored terminology information.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the peripheral device comprises one of a fax, a copier, a multifunctional device, and an image forming apparatus.

18. A method of controlling a peripheral device in a system including a host apparatus communicating with the peripheral device, the method comprising:

storing terminology information corresponding to operations of the peripheral device in one of the peripheral device and the host apparatus;

transmitting the terminology information stored in the one of the peripheral device and the host apparatus to the other one thereof;

displaying first and second menus in the peripheral device and the host apparatus, respectively, using the transmitted terminology information; and

controlling the operations of the peripheral device using one of the displayed first and second menus.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the terminology information includes predetermined terminologies corresponding to the operations of the peripheral device and indexes assigned to the predetermined terminologies and corresponding to regions of the predetermined terminologies in the first and second menu and the displaying of the first and second menus comprises:

displaying the predetermined terminologies in the regions of the first and second menus corresponding to the assigned indexes.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the controlling of the operations of the peripheral device comprises:

selecting one of the displayed predetermined terminologies to request the peripheral device to perform the corresponding operation.

21. A terminology information sharing system, comprising:

a peripheral device having an operating panel unit to display terminology information related to functions of the peripheral device to operate the functions;

a host computer to provide a graphic user interface identical to the operating panel unit by using the terminology information related to the functions of the peripheral device displayed at the operating panel unit; and

a terminology information server to load the terminology information related to the functions to at least one of the peripheral device and the host computer, when the at least one of the peripheral device and the host computer requests the terminology information server to load the terminology information.

22. The terminology information sharing system of claim 21, wherein the at least one of the peripheral device and the host computer stores the terminology information loaded from the terminology information server as a file, the peripheral device displays the stored terminology information according to corresponding functions at the operating panel unit after the terminology information is stored, and the host computer generates the graphic user interface to display the terminology information identically to the operating panel unit.

23. The terminology information sharing system of claim 21, wherein the peripheral device and the host computer requests the terminology information server to load terminology information expressed as a language of a country in which the peripheral device is being used.

24. A terminology information sharing system, comprising:

a peripheral device having one or more predetermined functions to store terminology information corresponding to the predetermined functions and to display an operational menu using the stored terminology information to control the predetermined functions; and

a host apparatus communicating with the peripheral device to load the terminology information from the peripheral device and to display a driver menu using the loaded terminology information to control the predetermined functions of the peripheral device, such that the driver menu uses the same terminology information as the operational menu of the peripheral device.

25. The terminology information sharing system of claim 24, wherein the terminology information comprises:

specified language corresponding to the predetermined functions to be displayed in the operational menu and the driver menu; and

indexes assigned to the specified language and corresponding to regions of the operational menu and the driver menu to display the specified language.

26. A terminology information sharing system, comprising:

a peripheral device to display a menu using first terminology information to control operations of the peripheral device;

a host apparatus communicating with to display a graphic user interface (GUI) using second terminology information to control the operations of the peripheral device; and

an information sharing unit communicating with the host apparatus and the peripheral device to store shared terminology information therein and to transmit the shared terminology information to the peripheral device and the host apparatus to be used as the first and second terminology information to display the menu and the GUI, respectively.

27. The terminology information sharing system of claim 26, wherein the information sharing unit is provided in the peripheral device and the shared terminology information comprises the first terminology information.

28. The terminology information sharing system of claim 26, wherein the information sharing unit is provided in the host apparatus and the shared terminology information comprises the second terminology information.

29. The terminology information sharing system of claim 26, wherein the information sharing unit comprises:

an external server to transmit the shared terminology information to the peripheral device and the host apparatus.

30. A computer readable recording medium containing a method of sharing terminology information, comprising:

sharing terminology information related to a plurality of functions of a peripheral device with the peripheral device;

generating a user interface displaying the shared terminology information related to the plurality of the functions when displaying of the shared terminology information is requested;

selecting one of the functions by selecting corresponding shared terminology information displayed in the user interface; and

requesting the peripheral device to perform the selected function.

31. A computer readable recording medium containing a method of controlling a peripheral device in a system including a host apparatus communicating with the peripheral device, the method comprising:

storing terminology information corresponding to operations of the peripheral device in one of the peripheral device and the host apparatus;

transmitting the terminology information stored in the one of the peripheral device and the host apparatus to the other one thereof;

displaying first and second menus in the peripheral device and the host apparatus, respectively, using the transmitted terminology information; and

controlling the operations of the peripheral device using one of the displayed first and second menus.