MOBILE APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD

• US 20130100463A1
• Filed: 05/04/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Jeong-Jin, Soh, Jae-Young
• Granted Patent: US 9,250,836 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1211 Improving printing performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1247 by conversion to printer ready format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing

Abstract

A mobile apparatus is disclosed. The mobile apparatus includes a user interface unit which is selected with a web page to be printed, an obtaining unit which obtains a size of the selected web page, a calculating unit which calculates a plurality of capture areas regarding the web page based on the obtained size of the web page so that there is not repeated area, an image processing unit which generates a capture image regarding the web page per calculated plurality of capture area, and combines the generated capture images to generate a print image, and a communication interface unit which transmits the generated print image to the image forming apparatus.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus connectible to an image forming apparatus and internet, the mobile apparatus comprising:

a user interface which selects a web page to be printed;

a size obtaining unit which obtains a size of the selected web page;

a calculator which calculates a plurality of capture areas of the web page in such a manner that there is no repeated area, based on the obtained size of the web page;

an image processor which generates at least one capture image of the web page based on calculated plurality of capture areas, and combines generated capture images to generate a print image; and

a communication interface which transmits the generated print image to the image forming apparatus.

2. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the size obtaining unit obtains the size of the web page using a size calculation API (Application Programming Interface) of a web browser which displays the web page.

3. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the size obtaining unit obtains the size of the selected web page using a Javascript function.

4. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calculator divides the web page into the plurality of capture areas by a predetermined capture size in such as manner that there is not repeated area, and calculates x, y coordinates per divided capture area.

5. The mobile apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined capture size is a size of the web page which can be displayed in the user interface in the case of displaying the web page without any expansion.

6. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processor controls so that the calculated plurality of capture areas are displayed consecutively on the user interface unit, and generates a screen displayed consecutively as one capture image.

7. The mobile apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the image processor controls so that the plurality of capture areas are displayed consecutively on the user interface unit using the Javascript function, to generate the plurality of capture images.

8. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processor combines the generated plurality of capture images to correspond to the capture area, and cuts out an area which does not correspond to the size of the web page, to generate a print image.

9. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user interface receives information of a size of a paper where the print image is to be printed, and

wherein the image processor performs at least one processing from among an expansion processing, reduction processing, and dividing processing on the combined capture image according to the received size of the paper, to generate a print image.

10. The mobile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user interface displays the generated print image.

11. A print controlling method in a mobile apparatus connectible to an image forming apparatus and internet, the print controlling method comprising:

selecting a web page to be printed;

obtaining a size of the selected web page;

calculating a plurality of capture areas of the web page so that there is no repeated area, based on the obtained size of the web page;

generating at least one capture image of the web page based on calculated plurality of capture areas;

combining the generated capture images to generate a print image; and

transmitting the generated print image to the image forming apparatus.

12. The print controlling method according to claim 11, wherein the obtaining the size obtains the size of the web page using a size calculation API (Application Programming Interface) of a web browser which displays the web page.

13. The print controlling method according to claim 11, wherein the obtaining the size obtains the size of the selected web page using a Javascript function.

14. The print controlling method according to claim 11, wherein the calculating divides the web page into the plurality of capture areas by a predetermined capture size in such a manner that there is no repeated area, and calculates x, y coordinates per divided capture area.

15. The print controlling method according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined capture size is a size of a web page area which can be displayed in the user interface unit in the case of displaying the web page without any expansion.

16. The print controlling method according to claim 11, wherein the generating the capture image controls so that the calculated plurality of capture areas are displayed consecutively on the user interface unit, and generates a screen displayed consecutively as one capture image.

17. The print controlling method according to claim 16, wherein the generating the capture image controls so that the plurality of capture areas are displayed consecutively on the user interface unit using the Javascript function to generate the plurality of capture images.

18. The print controlling method according to claim 11, wherein the generating the print image combines the generated plurality of capture images to correspond to the capture area, and cuts out an area that does not correspond to the size of the web page, to generate a print image.

19. The print controlling method according to claim 11 further comprising:

receiving information of a size of a paper where the print image is to be printed, and

wherein the generating the print image performs at least one processing from among an expansion processing, reduction processing, and dividing processing on the combined capture image according to the size of the paper to generate a print image.

20. The print controlling method according to claim 11 further comprising displaying the generated print image.

21. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium which includes a program for executing a print controlling method in a mobile apparatus connectible to an image forming apparatus and internet, the print controlling method comprising:

selecting a web page to be printed;

obtaining a size of the selected web page;

calculating a plurality of capture areas of the web page so that there is not repeated areas, based on the obtained size of the web page;

generating at least one capture image of the web page based on calculated plurality of capture areas;

combining the generated capture images to generate a print image; and

transmitting the generated print image to the image forming apparatus.