Remote Image Output with Original Direction Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming systems cannot effectively notify remote apparatuses of original direction information for image editing and printing during remote copy or multicopy operations, limiting the convenience of remote output modes.
Innovation Solution
The system includes an original direction detection unit that detects the orientation of the original document and transmits this information along with the image data to the remote printer, allowing for image editing and printing based on the detected orientation, enabling improved convenience in remote output operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If remote copy operation is performed without transmitting original direction information, then the remote printer can receive and print image data, but the image processing cannot be performed according to the original direction, reducing operational convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The original direction detection unit detects the original direction information before the image data is transmitted to the remote printer. This preliminary detection ensures that the direction information is available in advance for the remote printer to perform appropriate image processing, eliminating the need for manual intervention and improving operational convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The original direction information acts as an intermediary that bridges the local apparatus and the remote printer. By transmitting this information along with the image data, the remote printer can automatically adjust its image processing to match the original document's orientation, ensuring accurate layout and stapling without requiring manual configuration.
2Manufacturing precision
If original direction information is detected and transmitted to the remote apparatus, then accurate image processing based on original orientation can be performed, but the system complexity increases due to additional detection and transmission components
Solution Approach 1:
The local apparatus is designed with multi-functionality, combining both the original direction detection unit and the image data transmission unit in a single system. This allows the apparatus to automatically perform detection, processing, and transmission without requiring separate dedicated devices, thereby minimizing the increase in system complexity while achieving accurate image processing.
3Productivity
If the remote printer processes images without original direction information, then the printing operation can proceed, but the layout and stapling positions cannot be accurately determined, reducing manufacturing precision
Solution Approach 1:
The original direction information provides feedback to the remote printer about the orientation of the original document. This feedback enables the remote printer to automatically adjust its image processing parameters, including layout arrangement and stapling position calculation, ensuring that the printed output accurately reflects the original document's orientation while maintaining efficient automated processing.
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AI summary
Remote output environment remarkably improving convenience in remote output mode is provided so that print process according to original direction information detected by transmitter image forming apparatus can be performed by receiver image forming apparatus. Therefor, image processing system including first device having input unit of inputting image data and communication unit of performing data communication, and second device having communication unit of performing data communication and output unit of outputting image data sets the remote output mode for performing through the communication unit the data communication of the image data input by the first device and causing the second device to output the communicated data, causes the first device to acquire the direction information input by the first device, and causes in this mode the second device to output the image data from the first device in output manner based on the acquired information.