JP2011210045A - Image forming apparatus and character display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of reducing generation of an illegal character, compared with that in a prior art.SOLUTION: A combined machine includes a display unit for displaying a character, a memory for storing, in every language, a font group that is a correspondence relationship between a character code and a font, and a font retrieval unit for retrieving the font of the character displayed in the display unit, from the font group, the memory stores a priority order of the plurality of languages, and the font retrieval unit retrieves (S123) the font in the character code of the character, in every character from the font group (S121, S128), based on the priority order (S122, S125).

Description

  The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus including a display unit that displays characters.

  As a conventional image forming apparatus, there is known a multifunction peripheral that acquires a language used in an address book and displays address book information on a display unit in a font corresponding to the acquired language (for example, Patent Document 1). reference.).

JP 2006-69024 A

  However, in a conventional multifunction device, if characters in multiple languages are included in multiple characters displayed on the display unit at the same time, characters in a language that does not correspond to the set font are garbled. There is a problem.

  SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is that it provides an image forming apparatus that can reduce the occurrence of garbled characters.

  An image forming apparatus according to the present invention stores a display unit that displays characters, a font group storage unit that stores a font group corresponding to a character code and a font for each language, and a plurality of priorities of the languages. A priority storage unit; and a font search unit that searches the font group for the font of the character displayed on the display unit, wherein the font search unit selects the font for the character code of the character. A search is performed for each character from the font group based on the priority.

  With this configuration, the image forming apparatus of the present invention searches the font group for each character code from the font group one by one, and if there is no appropriate font, searches from the font group of another language based on the priority order. Therefore, the occurrence of garbled characters can be reduced as compared with the prior art.

  The priority storage unit of the image forming apparatus of the present invention stores the priorities of a plurality of patterns, and the image forming apparatus includes a pattern selection unit that allows a user to select the patterns. The font search means preferably searches for the font based on the priority order of the patterns selected by the user by the pattern selection means.

  With this configuration, the image forming apparatus of the present invention can search for fonts in the priority order of the user's favorite pattern.

  In addition, the image forming apparatus of the present invention preferably includes order editing means for allowing a user to edit the priority order.

  With this configuration, the image forming apparatus of the present invention can search for fonts in the user's favorite priority order.

  The character display method of the present invention stores a display step for displaying characters, a font group storage step for storing a font group corresponding to a character code and a font for each language, and a plurality of priorities of the languages. A character display method comprising: a priority order storage step; and a font search step for searching the font group for the font of the character displayed in the display step, wherein the font search step includes: The font for the character code is searched for each character from the font group based on the priority.

  With this configuration, the apparatus for executing the character display method of the present invention searches the font group for the character code of the character one by one from the font group, and if there is no appropriate font, the font of another language based on the priority order Since retrieval is performed from a group, the occurrence of garbled characters can be reduced as compared to the conventional case.

  The image forming apparatus of the present invention can reduce the occurrence of garbled characters.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a multifunction machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the pattern of the priority order which the memory | storage part shown in FIG. 1 has memorize | stored. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the pattern selection part of the control part shown in FIG. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the font search part of the control part shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  First, the configuration of a multifunction peripheral as an image forming apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a multifunction machine 10 according to the present embodiment.

  As illustrated in FIG. 1, the multifunction machine 10 includes a control unit 11 that controls the entire multifunction machine 10, a storage unit 12 that stores various information, and an operation (not illustrated) in which various operations are input by a user. An operation unit 13 on the panel, a display unit 14 on the operation panel that displays various information, a printer unit 15 that executes printing on paper, and a scanner unit 16 that is a reading device that reads an original and generates image data. A FAX communication unit 17 for performing FAX communication with an external facsimile apparatus (not shown) via a communication line such as a public telephone line, an external apparatus (not shown) such as a host computer, and a LAN (Local Area Network). ) And the like, and a network communication unit 18 for performing communication via a network.

  The control unit 11 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory) that stores programs and various data in advance, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) used as a work area of the CPU. ing. The CPU is an arithmetic processing unit that operates the control unit 11 by executing a program stored in the ROM. The RAM temporarily stores programs and various data when the programs are executed by the CPU.

  The control unit 11 includes a font search unit 11a serving as a font search unit according to the present invention that searches for fonts of characters displayed on the display unit 14 from font groups 12a to 12e, which will be described later. A pattern selecting unit 11b as a pattern selecting unit of the present invention that allows a user to select a pattern having a priority order 12h to 12l, and a rank editing unit as a rank editing unit of the present invention that allows a user to edit the priority order 12h to 12l. 11c functions.

  The storage unit 12 is a storage device such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), or a flash memory.

  The storage unit 12 stores a font group that is a correspondence relationship between a character code and a font for each language, and constitutes a font group storage unit of the present invention. For example, the storage unit 12 has five types of font groups: a Japanese font group 12a, a Korean font group 12b, a simplified Chinese font group 12c, a traditional Chinese font group 12d, and a Latin language font group 12e. The font group is memorized.

  The storage unit 12 is configured to store priorities of a plurality of languages, and constitutes a priority storage unit of the present invention. For example, the storage unit 12 stores the priority order 12h of the Japanese pattern No. 1, the priority order 12i of the Korean pattern No. 1, the priority order 12j of the Simplified Chinese pattern No. 1, the traditional Chinese character The priority order of five patterns, that is, the priority order 12k of the pattern whose word is No. 1 and the priority order 12l of the pattern whose Latin language is No. 1 is stored.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the priority order patterns stored in the storage unit 12.

  In FIG. 2, the priority order 12h is a language of Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Latin characters from the highest priority. The priority order 12i is a language of Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Latin characters in descending order. The priority order 12j is a language of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Latin characters from the highest priority. The priority order 12k is the language of Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Latin characters in descending order. The order of priority 12l is Latin language, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese from the highest ranking. The priorities shown in FIG. 2 are examples and are not limited to these.

  The operation unit 13 illustrated in FIG. 1 is an input device such as a button that forms a touch panel together with the display unit 14 or a button on an operation panel.

  The display unit 14 is a display device such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).

  The printer unit 15 prints various jobs such as a print data job received from an external device (not shown) via the network communication unit 18 and an image data job generated by the scanner unit 16. It is a printing device.

  For example, the FAX communication unit 17 transmits the image data generated by the scanner unit 16 to an external facsimile apparatus, or receives image data to be printed by the printer unit 15 from the external facsimile apparatus. It is a FAX communication device.

  For example, the network communication unit 18 transmits image data generated by the scanner unit 16 to an external device via a network, or print data to be printed by the printer unit 15 from an external device via the network. It is a network communication device that receives data.

  Next, the operation of the multifunction machine 10 will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the operation of the pattern selection unit 11b of the control unit 11.

  The user can select a language for displaying various information displayed on the display unit 14 such as guidance for the operation of the multifunction machine 10 from Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Latin languages. This can be selected via the operation unit 13. When the user performs an operation for starting the selection of the display language via the operation unit 13, the pattern selection unit 11b of the control unit 11 executes the process shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the pattern selection unit 11b accepts selection of a display language by the user (S101). Here, the user can select a display language from the languages of Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Latin characters via the operation unit 13.

  Next, the pattern selection unit 11b selects a pattern corresponding to the display language selected in S101 from the five patterns having the priority orders 12h to 12l (S102), and ends the process shown in FIG. That is, the pattern selection unit 11b selects the priority order 12h in which Japanese is the first when Japanese is selected in S101, and priority is given to the first in Korean when Korean is selected in S101. The priority 12i is selected, and when Simplified Chinese is selected in S101, the priority order 12j, which is No. 1 in Simplified Chinese, is selected. When Traditional Chinese is selected in S101, the Traditional Chinese is 1 The priority order 12k is selected, and when the Latin character language is selected in S101, the priority order 12l in which the Latin character language is No. 1 is selected.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation of the font search unit 11a of the control unit 11.

  For example, when displaying characters on the display unit 14 such as when displaying the file name of a file in an external device such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory on the display unit 14, the font search unit 11a of the control unit 11 The process shown in FIG. 4 is executed.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the font search unit 11a sets the first character among the characters to be displayed on the display unit 14 as a target character (S121).

  Next, the font search unit 11a sets the first language of the priority order selected in S102 shown in FIG. 3 among the priority orders 12h to 12l as the target language (S122). For example, when the priority order 12h is selected in S102 shown in FIG. 3, the font search unit 11a sets Japanese, which is the first language of the priority order 12h, as the target language.

  Next, the font search unit 11a searches the font group for the target character from the font group of the target language (S123). For example, when the target language is Japanese, the font search unit 11a searches the font group 12a, which is a Japanese font group, for a font corresponding to the character code of the target character.

  Next, the font search unit 11a determines whether or not a font exists as a result of the search in S123 (S124).

  If the font search unit 11a determines in S124 that no font exists, the next language is set as the target language (S125), and the process returns to S123 again. For example, when the priority order 12h is selected in S102 shown in FIG. 3 and Japanese, which is the first language of the priority order 12h, is the current target language, the font search unit 11a has the priority order 12h of 2 The target language is the Korean language, the second language.

  On the other hand, when the font search unit 11a determines in S124 that the font exists, the font search unit 11a displays the font on the display unit 14 (S126), and whether or not all the characters to be displayed on the display unit 14 have been displayed. Is determined (S127).

  If the font search unit 11a determines in S127 that there are characters that are not yet displayed among the characters that are to be displayed on the display unit 14, the next character is set as the target character (S128), and the process returns to S122 again.

  On the other hand, if the font search unit 11a determines in S127 that all the characters to be displayed on the display unit 14 have been displayed, the process illustrated in FIG.

  For example, when the priority order selected in S102 shown in FIG. 3 is the priority order 121, that is, when the first language is a Latin language, the second language of the priority order 12l is Japanese. When the user is a person who mainly uses Japanese, such as Japanese, the priority order 12l shown in FIG. 2 is considered to be relatively appropriate. However, if the user is a person who mainly uses Korean, such as Korean, the second language is preferably Korean instead of Japanese. In order to cope with such a situation, the multifunction peripheral 10 can allow the user to edit the priority order 12 l via the operation unit 13. When the user performs an operation for starting the editing of the priority order 12l through the operation unit 13, the order editing unit 11c of the control unit 11 performs the priority order 12l on the storage unit 12 in accordance with an instruction from the user. Edit the language order in. Note that the order editing unit 11c can edit the priority orders 12h to 12k in the same manner as the priority order 12l.

  As described above, the multifunction device 10 searches the font group for each character code from the font group one by one, and if there is no appropriate font, searches the font group of another language based on the priority order. Therefore, the occurrence of garbled characters can be reduced as compared with the prior art. In other words, the multifunction device 10 can prevent the occurrence of garbled characters as long as there is an appropriate font in the held font groups 12a to 12e.

  Further, in the multifunction device 10, the font search unit 11a searches for fonts based on the priority order of patterns selected by the user, so that fonts can be searched in the priority order of user-preferred patterns. The multi-function device 10 may be configured to have only one priority order.

  Further, since the order editing unit 11c allows the user to edit the priority order, the multifunction machine 10 can search for fonts according to the user's favorite priority order. Note that the MFP 10 may be configured such that the priority order cannot be edited.

  The image forming apparatus according to the present invention has been described with respect to a multifunction peripheral in the present embodiment, but may be an image forming apparatus other than a multifunction peripheral such as a copier or a printer.

  Further, although the image forming apparatus has been described in the present embodiment as an apparatus for executing the character display method of the present invention, an apparatus other than the image forming apparatus may be used. For example, a character display method of the present invention may be executed by a general-purpose personal computer.

10 MFP (image forming device)
11a Font search part (font search means)
11b Pattern selection unit (pattern selection means)
11c rank edit part (rank edit means)
12 storage unit (font group storage unit, priority storage unit)
12a to 12e Font group 12h to 12l Priority 14 Display section

Claims (4)

A display unit for displaying characters; a font group storage unit for storing a font group corresponding to a character code and a font for each language; a priority storage unit for storing a plurality of priorities of the languages; and the display Font search means for searching the font group for the font of the character displayed in the section,
The image forming apparatus, wherein the font searching unit searches the font group for each character from the font group based on the priority order. The priority storage unit stores the priority of a plurality of patterns,
The image forming apparatus includes a pattern selection unit that allows a user to select the pattern,
The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the font search unit searches for the font based on the priority order of the patterns selected by the user by the pattern selection unit.   The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a ranking editing unit that allows a user to edit the priority ranking. A display step for displaying characters, a font group storage step for storing a font group corresponding to a character code and a font for each language, a priority order storage step for storing a plurality of priorities of the languages, and the display A font search step of searching the font group for the font of the character displayed in a step,
The character search method characterized in that the font search step searches the font group for each character from the font group based on the priority order.

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