Communication terminal displays a position of hand-held image forming apparatus representing a line-feed distance with respect to recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorHiroki Tanaka
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Abstract
A communication terminal communicates with an image forming apparatus to be moved on a medium to perform image formation. The communication terminal includes a display and circuitry configured to receive a notification from the image forming apparatus and to display a preview of an image to be formed by the image forming apparatus. The circuitry is further configured to distinguish, on the preview, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed from a rest of the plurality of lines in accordance with a content of the notification and display operation aiding information for aiding an operation of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the content of the notification.
Claims16
A communication terminal configured to communicate with a hand-held image forming apparatus, movable over a medium to form an image on the medium, the communication terminal comprising:
- a display;
- and
- circuitry configured to:
- receive a notification from the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- cause the display to display a preview received from the hand-held image forming apparatus of an image to be formed by the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- cause the display to distinguish, on the preview displayed, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed, from at least one other of the plurality of lines, in accordance with a content of the notification received;
- cause the display to display, on the preview displayed, operation aiding information to aid in movement of the hand-held image forming apparatus over the medium in accordance with the content of the notification;
- receive, from the hand-held image forming apparatus, position information indicating a position the hand-held image forming apparatus relative to the medium, and
- control the display to indicate, on the display, a distance to a line-feed end position at which a line feed to a next line completes based on the position information received.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of program codes which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving, with a communication terminal configured to communicate with a hand-held image forming apparatus movable over a medium for formation of an image, a notification from the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- displaying a preview received from the hand-held image forming apparatus of an image to be formed by the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- distinguishing, on the preview displayed, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed, from at least one other of the plurality of lines, in accordance with a content of the notification received;
- displaying operation aiding information, on the preview displayed, to aid in movement of the hand-held image forming apparatus over the medium in accordance with the content of the notification;
- receiving, from the hand-held image forming apparatus, position information indicating a position the hand-held image forming apparatus relative to the medium, and
- controlling the display to indicate, on the display, a distance to a line-feed end position at which a line feed to a next line completes based on the position information received.
A communication terminal configured to communicate with a hand-held image forming apparatus, movable over a medium to form an image on the medium, the communication terminal comprising:
- a display;
- a memory storing computer-readable instructions;
- and
- one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions such that the one or more processors are configured to
- receive a notification from the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- cause the display to display a preview received from the hand-held image forming apparatus of an image to be formed by the hand-held image forming apparatus;
- cause the display to distinguish, on the preview displayed, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed, from at least one other of the plurality of lines, in accordance with a content of the notification received;
- cause the display to display, on the preview displayed, operation aiding information to in movement of the hand-held image forming apparatus over the medium in accordance with the content of the notification;
- receive, from the hand-held image forming apparatus, position information indicating a position the hand-held image forming apparatus relative to the medium, and
- control the display to indicate, on the display, a distance to a line-feed end position at which a line feed to a next line completes based on the position information received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.