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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070283249 | Label Creating Apparatus and Program If a model data file 84 cannot be entirely displayed in the data file display area 82, the display scale of the model data file 84 is compressed to make display setting such that the coordinate X3, Y3 on the right end portion at the lo... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070273895 | Efficient Whole Page Printing Disclosed are methods of printing documents comprising a plurality of pages sourced from a computer network. The methods provide a zoom property attribute to scale the document (FIG. 10). In one implementation a preview window (1702,1703) is displayed whic... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070240042 | Virtual print previewing A method and system for previewing an electronic document is disclosed. In one aspect, document information associated with an electronic document is transmitted from a client to a selected printing device. Upon receiving the document information, the selected printing ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070182989 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DOCUMENTS A document management apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring document file data and document file related data; a review period setting unit for setting a period in which the document file data is reviewed depending on the significance of the document fil... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070162841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED AND/OR PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS A system and method for rapidly customizing and printing documents is disclosed. The system supports product lines having a plurality of customizable products therein, through the use of a single Web page that is continually updated in a data-driven fashion. The system ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070157084 | User interface device and image displaying method An operation displaying unit displays thereon a preview image of input information. A receiving unit receives a request for rotating displayed preview image. A processing unit rotates the displayed preview image in response to received request for rotating the displayed... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070143671 | WYSIWYG multifunction device finishing options A method, document processing apparatus, and computer readable recording medium for performing document preparation of documents to be printed by a printing device capable of applying finishing functions to the printed document. A document preparation program further in... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070124670 | Systems, methods, and media for printing web pages Systems, methods, and media for printing a Web page by modifying the Web page in response to user inputs are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving a command to print a Web page, analyzing the Web page to be printed for one or more modifiable elements, and generat... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070097148 | LAYOUT SYSTEM, LAYOUT PROGRAM, AND LAYOUT METHOD A system is provided that sets reference points or lines in a layout region and arranges a layout element in the layout region using the positions of the reference points or lines as reference positions. The system includes: a unit storing reference position information... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20060282768 | Methods and systems for treating overflow conditions and for re-sizing printable content Various embodiments evaluate content that is to be printed and ascertain whether the content is going to overflow or be “orphaned” onto a second page when printed. If some content will create an orphan when printed, then the content is scaled to fit onto a single pa... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060265644 | Print processing apparatus, print processing system and print control method In accordance with the embodiment of the present invention, even if the print file stored in a detachable memory or the storage area of a mobile terminal is a file created by application software which cannot be handled by a print processing apparatus, the print file ca... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060236235 | Information processing apparatus and program An information processing apparatus includes: a multi-task operating system which displays a plurality of windows for displaying information on a display device; a detection unit which detects an active window among the windows; a determination unit which determines whe... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060168520 | Method of network publishing A method of network publishing is provided. The method is suitable for authorized distribution of a document from a publisher of network publications to a plurality of printers associated with a plurality of users. The method comprises the steps of: (a) the publisher ob... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060156230 | System for retrieving and printing network documents A method for providing print-by-reference functionality includes providing a web page from a printer's embedded web server to a web browser, receiving a URL entered into the provided web page, retrieving a printable document corresponding to the URL, and printing the re... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060156229 | Method and system for web-based print requests A print preparation assistant for a web browser system which allows a user to select multiple links within a top page for printing. The system automatically retrieves the documents and web pages pointed to by the selected links, searches for printer-friendly versions of... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060150093 | Page-break creating method for printing document A page-break creating method for use with a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is in communication with a printing device. After a document to be printed is selected, in response to a print command from the computer system, it is discriminated whether the... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060129923 | System and method for identifying line breaks Method, system, and computer code for preparing markup language documents containing multi-line text elements for WYSIWYG printing. The document is rendered in a prepress server system by a duplicate of the browser that was used to prepare the document in the client sys... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060069990 | Method and computer-readable medium for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages A method and computer-readable medium are provided for previewing and performing actions on attachments to electronic mail messages. A first window pane is displayed that includes a list of e-mail messages and information identifying any attachments to the e-mail messag... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20050281577 | Display control device for touch panel-type setting-operation unit, electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus Disclosed is a display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, which is designed to display a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen and to perform an input processing corresponding to the operation of one or more of the keys. The ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050275879 | Display device, display system, and display method The server device of the display system prepares preview image data for showing a completed state of a book being produced containing an image showing how paper being turned bends depending on the selected type of paper. ... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050278625 | Dynamic document and template previews Methods and systems are provided for dynamically generating and displaying previews of documents or templates of interest to a user. As a user provides or selects customized designs or themes, including color themes, font types, images, and the like, previews of one or ... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050268229 | Colorized template previews Methods and systems are provided for generating colorized previews of selected document templates. Upon selection of a desired color scheme, each document template represented by a collection of displayed document template previews is colorized according to a user-selec... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050257143 | Printing to displays A display device is arranged to emulate a conventional computer printer, thereby allowing documents and/or images to be displayed in a simple and convenient manner, using conventional printer interconnection techniques and which allows the image or document to be displa... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050257144 | Driver of image forming apparatus capable of printing selected objects of document, and image forming system for and method of printing selected objects of document A driver of an image forming apparatus capable of printing only selected objects of a document, and an image forming system for and a method of printing selected objects of a document are disclosed. The image forming system capable of printing selected objects of a docu... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050251754 | User interface including a preview Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing content previews. One apparatus operates to display one or more user interface controls as a foreground against a background on a display device; receive user input resulting in a user interface s... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050246633 | Printing system In a printing system in which a plurality of terminal devices are connected to a printer, conflicts among multiple setting instructions directed to the printing device are avoided. A terminal device 200[1] sends a print job and setting instructions indicating pri... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050237573 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus enabling identical editing of a plurality of edit target images includes an edit position designator for designating, for a single image, an edit position as an edit target, an alignment position designator for designating an image alignmen... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050229107 | PAPER-BASED INTERFACE FOR MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION The present invention provides techniques for generating a printable representation of multimedia information that can be printed on a paper medium to provide a paper-based interface for the multimedia information. The paper-based interface provided by the present inven... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050226641 | Image forming apparatus, terminal apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and computer readable recording medium An image forming apparatus has a new application management system. A platform provided in the image forming apparatus manages applications also provided in the image forming apparatus. An operation screen display application included in the application managed by the p... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050223324 | Multi-function machine, control method for the same, and program for implementing the method A multi-function apparatus which is capable of properly coping with cases where an auto-clear function is activated to thereby improve operability after execution of the function. The operating section of a copying machine displays an operating screen associated with ea... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050213156 | Method and apparatus for duplex printing using preview function A method and apparatus for duplex printing using a preview function by which a printer can set the printing locations on front and back pages on which duplex printing is to be performed using a preview image of the front and back pages, and then perform duplex printing.... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050210373 | Method and system for displaying annotated information associated with a settable variable value feature A method and user interface which enables the setting of a variable value feature, having a plurality of values associated therewith, wherein the plurality of values include a default value and a plurality of non-default values. The method and user interface displays a ... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050210408 | Alternative, customizable, simplified device settings menu A method for providing a smaller, simplified menu for a device, by providing a GUI for switching between the simplified menu and a regular menu after installing a driver. The simplified menu comprises a predefined set of device settings in a single light tab. This facto... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050198572 | Method and system of printing isolated sections from documents A system, method, and related computer program for isolating sections of data from a document for printing said designated data from received documents from the World Wide Web and like networks, or from documents such as pdf files, source code files, presentation, sprea... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050195436 | Print data editing apparatus and print data editing program Print images of all templates in a category are displayed in a template display region. The quantity of templates to be displayed can be freely set using a display quantity spin box and templates in excess of the display quantity can be scrolled. If a text object in a t... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050179947 | Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and document processing program A document processing apparatus according to the present invention capable of changing a layout of a document dynamically in accordance with data to be laid out in the document, comprises a storage unit to store a template which contains a plurality of combinations of r... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050179926 | Information processor, method for processing information and memory medium for storing program readable by computer In order to compose a plurality of print jobs together to prepare one composed job and provide a desired printed result with no inconvenience to a user, an information processor of the present invention includes a generator for generating print setting information for t... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050174589 | Image processing apparatus, image processing program and storage medium There is disclosed an image processing program causing a computer to perform the following operations setting image processing executed for a processing target image as application image processing, setting a plurality of predetermined processing parameter values used i... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050174605 | System and method for providing a form for use in greeting card delivery A system for delivering a greeting card using a form, the system including a computer system for determining information relating to at least one interactive element associated with the delivery of a greeting card, and an identity indicative of the at least one interact... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050174590 | Image correction method, image correction apparatus, and image correction program A main display section is divided into a plurality of display areas (partial display areas). In each display area, image correction is carried out according to individual correction parameters. A target image for image correction is displayed in an image display area as... | 08/11/2005 |
