Back to results
US 10,649,701 B2Granted
Image processing system
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorMasayuki Shigetomi
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In an image processing system, a mobile terminal device obtains a position and a direction of each image forming apparatus relative to the mobile terminal device on a basis of respective wireless signals transmitted from each of the image forming apparatuses and is received by a near field communication unit, and displays on a display unit the position and the direction. When an arbitrary image forming apparatus is selected by operation of a touch panel, image data to be printed is transmitted via a network by a network communication section to the selected image forming apparatus.
Claims7
An image processing system comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a mobile terminal device connected to each of the image forming apparatuses via a network,
- each of the image forming apparatuses including:
- a first network communication unit that performs data communication with the mobile terminal device via the network,
- a first near field communication unit that performs near field communication with the mobile terminal device;
- an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet;
- and
- a first controller that causes the image forming unit to form, on the recording sheet, an image shown by image data transmitted from the mobile terminal device and been received by the first network communication unit, and
- the mobile terminal device including:
- a display unit;
- an operation unit that accepts input of an instruction from a user;
- a second network communication unit that performs data communication with each of the image forming apparatuses via the network;
- a second near field communication unit that performs near field communication with the first near field communication unit of each of the image forming apparatuses;
- and
- a second controller that:
- when the second near field communication unit receives respective wireless signals transmitted from each of the image forming apparatuses, detects a position and a direction of each of the image forming apparatuses relative to the mobile terminal device on a basis of each of the wireless signals and causes the display unit to display the positions and the directions;
- and when the operation unit accepts an instruction to select a first one of the image forming apparatuses, causes the second network communication unit to transmit image data to be printed and a print execution request to the first one of the image forming apparatuses selected by the instruction,
- wherein in the mobile terminal device, after the instruction to select the first one of the image forming apparatuses has been accepted by the operation unit and the second controller has caused the second network communication unit to transmit the image data to the first one of the image forming apparatuses selected by the instruction, when the operation unit accepts an instruction to select a second one of the image forming apparatuses, the second controller causes the second network communication unit to transmit a print cancellation instruction to the selected first one of the image forming apparatuses and causes the second network communication unit to transmit the image data to the selected second one of the image forming apparatuses, and
- in the mobile terminal device, the display unit includes a touch panel, and the second controller:
- causes, when the second network communication unit transmits the image data to the first one of the image forming apparatuses selected by the instruction and the image forming apparatus being as a transmission destination accepts the image data, the display unit to display an image representing the image data at a position where an image representing the selected first one of the image forming apparatuses;
- causes, when the touch panel accepts a slide operation between the position of the image representing the image data and a position of an image representing the second one of the image forming apparatuses, the second network communication unit to transmit the print cancellation instruction to the selected first one of the image forming apparatuses;
- and
- causes the second network communication unit to transmit the image data to the selected second one of the image forming apparatuses.
18 more elements
An image processing system comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a mobile terminal device connected to each of the image forming apparatuses via a network,
- each of the image forming apparatuses including:
- a first network communication unit that performs data communication with the mobile terminal device via the network,
- a first near field communication unit that performs near field communication with the mobile terminal device;
- an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet and a first controller that causes the image forming unit to form, on the recording sheet, an image shown by image data transmitted from the mobile terminal device and been received by the first network communication unit, and
- the mobile terminal device including:
- a display unit;
- an operation unit that accepts input of an instruction from a user;
- a second network communication unit that performs data communication with each of the image forming apparatuses via the network;
- a second near field communication unit that performs near field communication with the first near field communication unit of each of the image forming apparatuses;
- and
- a second controller that:
- when the second near field communication unit receives respective wireless signals transmitted from each of the image forming apparatuses, detects a position and a direction of each of the image forming apparatuses relative to the mobile terminal device on a basis of each of the wireless signals and causes the display unit to display the positions and the directions;
- and when the operation unit accepts an instruction to select a first one of the image forming apparatuses, causes the second network communication unit to transmit image data to be printed and a print execution request to the first one of the image forming apparatuses selected by the instruction,
- wherein in the first one of the image forming apparatuses selected by the instruction, after the image data transmitted from the mobile terminal device has been received by the first network communication unit, when interruption of another job to be processed occurs before or during execution of job based on the image data, the first controller newly detects the waiting time after the occurrence of the interruption, and causes the first network communication unit to transmit information indicating the occurrence of the interruption and the detected waiting time via the network to the mobile terminal device, and when
- in the mobile terminal device, when the second network communication unit receives the information indicating the occurrence of the interruption and the detected waiting time, the second controller causes the display unit to display an image representing that the interruption has been occurred in the first one of the image forming apparatuses and an image representing the newly detected waiting time.
12 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.