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Printer and method for controlling printerPrinter and method for controlling printer description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090153886, Printer and method for controlling printer. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
1. Technical Field The present invention relates to printers and methods for controlling the printers and may be employed in self-service printing vending machines installed in various stores, for example. The present invention is used for detecting an abnormality of an image and informing a user of the abnormality to thereby appropriately correct the abnormality of the image. 2. Background Art In general, various stores such as convenience stores provide self-service printing vending machines. Even users who do not have computers may use the printing vending machines to print images captured using electronic still cameras or cellular phones including cameras, for example. Such a self-service printing vending machine is a printer used for printing image data recorded in a memory card as a recording medium. When a memory card used with an electronic still camera or a cellular phone including a camera is loaded in the self-service printing vending machine, captured images recorded in the memory card are displayed as a list of thumbnail images. The self-service printing vending machine allows a user to select images to be printed from the displayed list, the user pays a charge corresponding to the number of prints, and then the selected images are printed for the user. Regarding printing of images, various techniques of correction of captured images have been proposed. For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2001-186323 discloses a technique of correction of a captured image so that a color in the captured image considerably approximates to a color of actual skin in a photo printing system for an identification photograph. In recent years, a self-service printing vending machine which automatically corrects the brightness of an entire image or corrects a grainy image, or which corrects the hue of an image in accordance with an instruction by a user has been proposed. It is considered that, since the captured images are corrected in the printing vending machine as described above, a high level of convenience for the user is obtained. However, the user may capture an image of a subject in backlight or in excessive exposure on purpose. Accordingly, the user has to check the images before the printing vending machine corrects the captured images. However, in the printing vending machines in the related art, since captured images are displayed as a list of small thumbnail images, it is difficult to find abnormalities of images which should be corrected. In the printing vending machines in the related art, even when an abnormality is not found in the displayed list of thumbnail images, an abnormality such as a red-eye portion, low brightness, or low saturation may be found after printing. Here, there arises a problem that the printing vending machines in the related art do not appropriately correct abnormalities of images. The present invention has been made in view of the above drawbacks, and the invention provides a printer capable of appropriately correcting abnormalities of images and a method for controlling the printer. Accordingly, there is provided a printer including image data inputting means for inputting image data, abnormality detecting means for detecting an abnormality of an image input as the image data, displaying means for displaying a result detected by the abnormality detecting means, inputting means for inputting an instruction for printing the image, which is displayed by the displaying means, and printing means for printing the image which is instructed to be printed by the inputting means. In this configuration of the present invention, since the printer includes image data inputting means for inputting image data, abnormality detecting means for detecting an abnormality of an image input as the image data, displaying means for displaying a result detected by the abnormality detecting means, inputting means for inputting an instruction for printing the image, which is displayed by the displaying means, and printing means for printing the image which is instructed to be printed by the inputting means, a user corrects the image displayed by the displaying means as needed in accordance with the result detected by the abnormality detection. Consequently, the user appropriately corrects the abnormality of the image. Furthermore, according to the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a printer including an image data inputting step of inputting image data, an abnormality detecting step of detecting an abnormality of an image corresponding the image data, a displaying step of displaying the abnormality of the image as a result of the detection, an inputting step of inputting an instruction for printing the image, which is displayed in the displaying step, and a printing step of printing the image which is instructed to be printed. With this configuration of the present invention, a method for controlling a printer capable of appropriately correcting an abnormality of an image is provided. According to the present invention, an abnormality of an image is appropriately corrected. Continue reading about Printer and method for controlling printer... 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