Image processing device

• US 7,849,094 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2008
• Issued: 12/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Arai, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil; Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Darno; Patrick A
• Application Number:
  US12/073,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222213A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/126 Character encoding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification

Abstract

An image processing device which is provided with a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing device, and a web server unit configured to generate a webpage which can be browsed by a web browser executed in the information processing device and transmit the generated webpage to the information processing device. The web server unit includes an information acquiring unit configured to acquire language information of the web browser, a designating unit configured to insert designation of a character code set corresponding to the language information acquired by the information acquired by the language information acquiring unit in the webpage, and an incorporating unit configured to incorporate language information acquired from the image processing device into a text of the webpage.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing device;

a web server unit configured to generate a webpage which can be browsed by a web browser executed in the information processing device and transmit the generated webpage to the information processing device,

wherein the web server unit is configured to, upon execution of computer readable instructions;

receive a webpage request from the information processing device;

determine whether the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language for the webpage from a plurality of languages, each of the plurality of languages corresponding to a different language character code set of a plurality of language character code sets;

in response to determining that the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language, operate in a first mode in which the web server unit incorporates text of the specific language selected from the plurality of languages into the webpage using characters of a first character code set corresponding to the specific language; and

in response to determining that the webpage request does not include a user selection of a specific language, operate in a second mode in which the web server unit;

acquires language information of the web browser;

inserts a designation of a second character code set corresponding to the language information of the web browser in the webpage, wherein the second character code set further corresponds to a first language; and

incorporates text of a second language into the webpage using a character set common to the plurality of language character code sets.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when the web server unit operates in the second mode, the web server unit creates the text of the webpage in English, using ASCII characters as the common character set.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a printing unit configured to print an image based on a file received from the image processing device via the communication unit; and

a log information storage configured to store a log file comprising information defining a process by which the file is printed by the printing unit,

wherein the web server unit acquires the log information from the log information storage, and

wherein the web server incorporates the log information in the text of the webpage.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising an input information storage,

wherein the web server unit acquires character information input on the web browser via the communication unit and stores the acquired character information in the input information storage, and

wherein the web server unit incorporates the character information in the text of the webpage.

5. The image processing device of claim 1, wherein the user selected specific language is specified in the webpage request as part of an address for the information processing device when the request includes a user selection of a specific language, and

wherein the first language is designated in a header of the webpage request when the request does not include a user selection of a specific language.

6. The image processing device of claim 1, wherein the web server unit is further configured to incorporate additional text into the webpage, wherein the additional text includes a character string acquired from the information processing device.

7. A method of controlling an image processing device which is provided with a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing device, and a web server unit configured to generate a webpage which can be browsed by a web browser executed in the information processing device and transmit the generated webpage to the information processing device, the method comprising steps of:

receiving a webpage request from the information processing device;

determining whether the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language for the webpage from a plurality of languages, each of the plurality of languages corresponding to a different language character code set of a plurality of language character code sets;

in response to determining that the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language, operating in a first mode in which the text of the webpage is incorporated using characters of a first character code set corresponding to the specific language selected from among the plurality of languages; and

in response to determining that the webpage request does not include a user selection of a specific language, operating in a second mode comprising;

acquiring language information of the web browser;

inserting a designation of a second character code set corresponding to the language information of the web browser in the webpage, wherein the second character code set further corresponds to a first language; and

incorporating text of a second language into the webpage using a character set common to the plurality of language character code sets.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein, when the web server unit operates in the second mode, the second language is English, and the character set common to the character code sets is ASCII.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image processing device further includes:

a printing unit configured to print an image based on a file received from the image processing device via the communication unit; and

a log information storage configured to store a log file comprising information defining a process by which the file is printed by the printing unit, and

wherein the method further comprises;

acquiring the log information from the log information storage, and

incorporating the log information in the text of the webpage.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image processing device further includes an input information storage, and wherein the method further comprises:

acquiring character information input on the web browser via the communication unit and storing the acquired character information in the input information storage, and

incorporating the character information in the text of the webpage.

11. A non-transitory computer accessible recording medium storing a program to be executed by a computer of an image processing device provided with a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing device, and a web server unit configured to generate a webpage which can be browsed by a web browser executed in the information processing device and transmit the generated webpage to the information processing device, the program causes the computer, when executed, to perform steps of:

receiving a webpage request from the information processing device;

determining whether the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language for the webpage from a plurality of languages, each of the plurality of languages corresponding to a different language character code set of a plurality of language character code sets;

in response to determining that the webpage request includes a user selection of a specific language, operating in a first mode in which the text of the webpage is incorporated using characters of a first character code set corresponding to the specific language selected from among the plurality of languages; and

in response to determining that the webpage request does not include a user selection of a specific language, operating in a second mode comprising;

acquiring language information of the web browser;

inserting a designation of a second character code set corresponding to the language information of the web browser in the webpage, wherein the second character code set further corresponds to a first language; and

incorporating text of a second language into the webpage using a character set common to the plurality of language character code sets.

12. The non-transitory computer accessible recording medium according to claim 11, wherein, when the web server unit operates in the second mode, the second language is English and the character set common to the character code sets is ASCII.

13. The non-transitory computer accessible recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the image processing device further includes:

a printing unit configured to print an image based on a file received from the image processing device via the communication unit; and

a log information storage configured to store a log file comprising information defining a process by which the file is printed by the printing unit, and

wherein the program further causes the computer to perform steps of;

acquiring the log information from the log information storage, and

incorporating the log information in the text of the webpage.

14. The non-transitory computer accessible recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the image processing device further includes an input information storage, and wherein the program further causes the computer to perform steps of:

acquiring character information input on the web browser via the communication unit and storing the acquired character information in the input information storage, and

incorporating the character information in the text of the webpage.