Abstract:
A method of controlling a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection of an image forming apparatus that supports the P2P connection includes: receiving in the image forming apparatus a P2P connection request from an external wireless device; checking a device type of the wireless device by the image forming apparatus; determining whether the device type corresponds to connection restricted device types; and when the device type is the connection restricted device type, blocking a P2P connection to the wireless device by the image forming apparatus, and when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to the wireless device.
Abstract:
An interface card is capable of communicating with an external device and includes a power supplier; a non-volatile memory which stores executable instructions to operate in an active-mode and a sleep-mode; a small-capacity volatile memory which is supplied with power in the sleep mode; a transmitter-receiver which transmits and receives packet data to/from the external device; and a controller which retrieves sleep-mode instructions stored in the non-volatile memory and loads the sleep mode instructions in the small-capacity volatile memory to transition the interface card into the sleep mode if the transmitter-receiver does not receive the packet data for predetermined time period in an active mode. The interface card processes certain packet data in the sleep mode and transitions back into the active mode when sleep mode operations determine that the packet data cannot be processed in the sleep mode. The non-volatile memory, and other components of an external circuit, is powered down when the interface card is in the sleep mode.
Abstract:
An interface card is capable of communicating with an external device and includes a power supplier; a non-volatile memory which stores executable instructions to operate in an active-mode and a sleep-mode; a small-capacity volatile memory which is supplied with power in the sleep mode; a transmitter-receiver which transmits and receives packet data to/from the external device; and a controller which retrieves sleep-mode instructions stored in the non-volatile memory and loads the sleep mode instructions in the small-capacity volatile memory to transition the interface card into the sleep mode if the transmitter-receiver does not receive the packet data for predetermined time period in an active mode. The interface card processes certain packet data in the sleep mode and transitions back into the active mode when sleep mode operations determine that the packet data cannot be processed in the sleep mode. The non-volatile memory, and other components of an external circuit, is powered down when the interface card is in the sleep mode.
Abstract:
A network communication node for receiving packets through a network. The network communication node comprises a network communication module for receiving a predetermined number of packets from a predetermined corresponding node linked thereto through a network; a memory for storing first information about a predetermined criterion for reception restriction; and a controller for checking a packet receiving condition of the network communication module and determining whether the criterion for reception restriction is satisfied, and according to a result of the determination, controlling the restriction of the reception of the predetermined packets of the network communication module. Accordingly, the reception of packets is restricted in data congestion, and thus the data congestion can be immediately resolved.
Abstract:
A signal adaptive filtering method is disclosed for reducing a blocking effect and ringing noise of an image data. A gradient of the image data is calculated for each pixel of the image data. Then, the gradient data of each pixel is compared with a global threshold value (Tg) which is determined based on a predetermined quantization step size (Q), and global edge map information of the pixel is generated. Meanwhile, the gradient data of each pixel is compared with a local threshold value (Tn) determined for each block having a predetermined size, and local edge map information of the pixel is generated. An OR operation is performed with respect to the global edge map information and the local edge map information to generate binary edge map information. Then, a predetermined sized filter window is applied to determine whether edges are present in the binary edge map information within the filter window. Afterwards, the image data pixel values of the corresponding filter window are filtered, pixel by pixel, by using predetermined first weighted values to generate a first new pixel value if it is determined that edges are not present. The image data pixel values within the corresponding filter window are filtered, pixel by pixel, by using predetermined second weighted values to generate a second new pixel value if it is determined that edges are present within the window. No filtering is performed if the pixel located at the center of the filter window represents an edge.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus supporting a Wi-Fi Direct receives a request for a Wi-Fi Direct connection from an external wireless device, and allows to establish the Wi-Fi Direct connection between the image forming apparatus and the external wireless device by using device information that is previously stored with respect to wireless devices that were previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the image forming apparatus.
Abstract:
A network connection method of an image forming apparatus to support wired and wireless network interfaces includes receiving a destination address, attempting to connect to a destination corresponding to the destination address by using each of the wired and wireless network interfaces, determining a network interface connectable to the destination, according to a result of the attempt, and transmitting data to the destination by using the connectable network interface.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a MAC controller that receives a data packet containing print data from a host apparatus via a network, a central processing unit (CPU) that processes the data packet received by the MAC controller, and a printing unit that performs a printing operation on the basis of the print data processed by the CPU, wherein MAC controller selectively transmits the data packet to the CPU depending on whether the data packet received from the host apparatus corresponds to a predetermined receivable protocol type.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus for identifying a network device corresponding to an Internet protocol address. The method comprises the steps of detecting network devices over a network using a detection message, extracting media access control addresses from Internet protocol addresses of network devices which respond to the detection message, and detecting and displaying names of network devices corresponding to the extracted media access control addresses from a database which stores device identification information specifying names of network devices and media access control addresses corresponding to the respective names.
Abstract:
A signal adaptive filtering method for reducing blocking effect and ringing noise, a signal adaptive filter, and a computer readable medium. The signal adaptive filtering method capable of reducing blocking effect and ringing noise of image data when a frame is composed of blocks of a predetermined size includes the steps of: (a) generating blocking information for reducing the blocking effect and ringing information for reducing the ringing noise, from coefficients of predetermined pixels of the upper and left boundary regions of the data block when a frame obtained by deconstructing a bitstream image data for inverse quantization is an intraframe; and (b) adaptively filtering the image data passed through inverse quantization and inverse discrete cosine transform according to the generated blocking information and ringing information. Therefore, the blocking effect and ringing noise can be eliminated from the image restored from the block-based image, thereby enhancing the image restored from compression.