Mobile terminal that performs wireless communication and control method for the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMorikazu Ito
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Abstract
A mobile terminal with which an intended image forming apparatus can be easily paired is provided. A search unit searches for an image forming apparatus. A display unit displays, as a result of searching by the search unit, a list containing a plurality of image forming apparatuses. A specifying unit specifies, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses, one image forming apparatus to which the mobile terminal is brought closer. A connection unit connects to the image forming apparatus specified by the specifying unit.
Claims25
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a communicator that receives a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio wave;
- a memory device that stores a program;
- and
- at least one processor that executes the program to:
- search for a plurality of image forming apparatuses to be displayed in a list, based on an intensity of the BLE radio wave received by the communicator from each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and a first predetermined value;
- display a screen containing both the list of the plurality of image forming apparatuses of which the intensity of the BLE radio wave received by the communicator from each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is greater than the first predetermined value and a prompting message that prompts to a user of the mobile terminal to bring the mobile terminal closer to an image forming apparatus among the plurality of image forming apparatuses displayed in the list;
- specify, based on (i) an intensity of the BLE radio wave further received by the communicator from each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses while displaying the screen containing both the list and the prompting message and (ii) a second predetermined value being different from the first predetermined value, one image forming apparatus, to which the mobile terminal has been brought closer than when the list was first displayed and which has been located within a predetermined distance from the mobile terminal, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses contained in the list, without receiving, from the user prompted by the prompting message, any operation through the screen displaying the list;
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- connect to the specified one image forming apparatus.
A control method for a mobile terminal having a communicator that receives a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio wave, comprising:
- searching for a plurality of image forming apparatuses to be displayed in a list, based on an intensity of the BLE radio wave received by the communicator from each of the plurality of the image forming apparatuses;
- displaying, after the searching, a screen containing both a prompting message that prompts a user of the mobile terminal to bring the mobile terminal closer to an image forming apparatus among the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the list of the plurality of image forming apparatuses obtained by the searching;
- specifying, based on an intensity of the BLE radio wave further received by the communicator from at least one of the image forming apparatuses while displaying the screen including the list, one image forming apparatus to which the mobile terminal has been brought closer than when the list was first displayed and which has been located within a predetermined distance from the mobile terminal, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses contained in the list, without receiving, from the user prompted by the prompting message, any operation through the list being displayed;
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- connecting to the specified one image forming apparatus.
A control method for a mobile terminal that performs a wireless communication according to a first wireless communication standard and a wireless communication according to a second wireless communication standard, the control method comprising:
- receiving a wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard from each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- measuring and storing an intensity of the received wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- receiving again a wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard from each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and measuring an intensity of the received-again wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard;
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- selecting one image forming apparatus, as an image forming apparatus for communicating with the mobile terminal according to the second wireless communication standard, from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on the measured and stored intensity of the received wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the measured intensity of the received-again wireless signal of the first wireless communication standard for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.