Patent ID: 8358428
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing method for controlling a computer and an image processing device connected to the computer to perform an image processing, the computer including a plurality of drivers that controls the image processing device, the image processing method comprising: (a) controlling the image processing device by using one of the plurality of drivers; (b) storing, in a storing unit, error information indicating which one of the plurality of drivers is used when an error occurs in the controlling step (a); (c) accessing the error information stored in the storing step (b); (d) selecting a subject driver from the plurality of drivers based on the error information accessed in the accessing step (c); (e) controlling the image processing device via the subject driver selected in the selecting step (d); (f) reading a correspondence relation between the image processing device and one of the plurality of drivers; (g) selecting at least two drivers corresponding to the image processing device among the plurality of drivers based on the correspondence relation read in the reading step (f); wherein the selecting step (d) selects the subject driver from the at least two drivers selected in the selecting step (g); wherein the plurality of drivers includes a first driver which controls the image processing device and which complies with a first standard, and a second driver which controls the image processing device and which complies with a second standard different from the first standard, the first driver and the second driver are selected in the selecting step (g), the image processing method further comprising: (h) determining whether the error information about the first driver is available, wherein the selecting step (d) comprises: (i) selecting the first driver as the subject driver when the determining step (h) determines that the error information about the first driver is unavailable.