Image processing device

• US 7,253,918 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2002
• Issued: 08/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Ryuichi, Nishide, Yasushi, Kodama, Mari
• Primary Examiner(s): Popovici; Dov
• Application Number:
  US10/173,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20030007173A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,876 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.1, 358/1.16, 358/1.17, 358/1.18, 358/1.2, 358/1.3, 358/1.4, 358/1.5, 358/1.6, 358/1.7, 358/1.8, 358/1.9, 358/1.11, 358/1.12, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/468, 358/407, 358/500, 358/501, 358/518, 358/515, 358/517, 358/519, 382/164, 382/162, 382/167
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printersprinting or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/025 Simulating output on another printing arrangement, e.g. proof output matching two or more picture signal generators or two or more picture reproducers H04N1/6052
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1809 relating to the printing process

Abstract

The present invention provides an image processing device which aims for appropriate settings and simplification of printing functions. In a print server, when a print job is received, an application name used in a client terminal is specified from a drawing command of the print job, and standard settings of printing functions provided for each application are read from database files. Thereafter, the standard settings and settings of printing functions of the print job are compared. When the settings are different, after carrying out a warning processing, setting of printing functions based on the standard settings is carried out, and image processing and printing processing based on the set printing functions are executed. In this way, while simplifying settings of printing functions in the client terminal, image processing and printing processing by appropriate printing functions are possible.

Claims

1. An image processing device for carrying out image processing on the basis of drawing commands using applications from an image processing terminal, the image processing device comprising:

a storing section for storing settings of printing functions for each application used in the image processing terminal;

a reading section for reading information specifying the application from the drawing command;

a setting section for setting printing functions by reading the settings from the storing section corresponding to the application specified by the reading results of the reading section;

a comparing section for comparing settings of printing functions read from descriptions of the drawing command and standard settings of the storing section of printing functions based on an application name; and

a warning section for warning that the printing functions are different, on the basis of the results of comparison of the comparing section.

2. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the reading section reads information specifying the application from descriptions following a predetermined code in the drawing command set in accordance with the application.

3. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when a description specifying the application is added in the processing terminal, the reading section reads the added description.

4. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the reading section specifies an application name from a predetermined variable name in the drawing command.

5. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the reading section reads an application name from data in a predetermined variable.

6. An image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an updating section able to, on the basis of a request from the image processing terminal, update the printing functions stored in the storing section, and the settings of the printing functions.

7. An image processing device for carrying out image processing on the basis of drawing commands using applications from an image processing terminal, the image processing device comprising:

an extracting section for extracting at least one of a color space of an image from image data and the drawing command inputted from the image processing terminal; and

a warning section for issuing a warning when the extracting section extracts an image of a predetermined color space when the predetermined color space is a different color space from a color space which is based on a standard setting of a printing function of the application.

8. An image processing device according to claim 7, further comprising a converting section for converting the image to a predetermined color image, when an image of a predetermined color space is extracted by the extracting section.

9. An image processing device according to claim 8, wherein the converting section converts the image to a warning color based on a setting stored in a storing section.

10. An image processing device according to claim 8, wherein the converting section converts the image to a color image designated from the image processing terminal.

11. An image processing device according to claim 7, wherein the extracting section extracts an image in RGB format as the color space.

12. An image processing device according to claim 7, wherein the warning section displays a predetermined warning message on the image processing terminal.