Image forming apparatus that forms image based on information from wireless tag
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Tomiyama, Sadatoshi Oishi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a wireless tag reader writer configured to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet;
- a printer configured to form an image on the sheet;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- determine whether a writing of data to the wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag reader writer;
- generate investigation support information when the writing was not successful;
- and
- control the printer to form, on the sheet to which the wireless tag is attached, an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information and including an error code identifying a specific error event based on which the writing was determined to be not successful,
- wherein the investigation support image includes error summary information and error detail information different from the error summary information, the error detail information including at least one of:
- an identification of one of a plurality of storage locations of the wireless tag at which the specific error event occurred during the writing, the identification being associated with the error code;
- a value of write data, which is data that has been written to the wireless tag during the writing;
- and
- a value of read data, which is data that has been read from the wireless tag for which the writing was determined to be not successful.
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus comprising:
- receiving, from a wireless tag reader writer, data that has been read from a wireless tag attached to a sheet;
- determining whether a writing of data to the wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag reader writer;
- generating investigation support information when the writing was not successful;
- and
- controlling a printer to form, on the sheet to which the wireless tag is attached, an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information and including an error code identifying a specific error event based on which the writing was determined to be not successful,
- wherein the investigation support image includes error summary information and error detail information different from the error summary information, the error detail information including at least one of:
- an identification of one of a plurality of storage locations of the wireless tag at which the specific error event occurred during the writing, the identification being associated with the error code;
- a value of write data, which is data that has been written to the wireless tag during the writing;
- and
- a value of read data, which is data that has been read from the wireless tag for which the writing was determined to be not successful.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.