Image output system having a customized user interface
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorihiro YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
An authentication processing portion of an MFP requests user authentication to a server based on user information including at least a user ID input from a mobile terminal apparatus or an operation panel. The server has a user authentication portion which performs the user authentication and a UI instruction portion which specifies, when the user authentication succeeds, a UI image displayed on a display panel of the apparatus for operating the MFP depending on the user ID, and instructs the MFP to display the UI image on the apparatus. The MFP executes image output in accordance with a user operation received from the apparatus through the wireless communication portion in a state where the UI image is displayed on the apparatus.
Claims12
A multi-functional peripheral capable of outputting an image, comprising
- a wireless communication portion which communicates with an external terminal apparatus wirelessly,
- a receiving portion which receives a user interface image when succeeding in user authentication based on user information including at least a user identification information input from the external terminal apparatus or an operation portion provided in the multi-functional peripheral, and
- a display portion,
- wherein
- the user interface image is specified depending on the user identification information, or in accordance with a user operation, the user interface image being any one of images which are (I) an image displayed on the display portion to operate the multi-functional peripheral directly and displayed on a terminal-side display portion provided in the external terminal apparatus to operate the multi-functional peripheral, (II) an image displayed on the terminal-side display portion to operate the multi-functional peripheral, and (III) an image displayed on the display portion to operate the multi-functional peripheral directly,
- the multi-functional peripheral executes image output in accordance with a user operation received from any one of (i) the operation portion or the external terminal apparatus via the wireless communication portion, (ii) the external terminal apparatus via the wireless communication portion, and (iii) the operation portion, in a state where the above images of (I), (II), and (III) are displayed as the user interface image, and
- based on the user operation the multi-functional peripheral changes the user interface image specified in order to facilitate operation by the user.
An image output method in a multi-functional peripheral capable of outputting an image comprising:
- a step for inputting user information including at least user identification information from the external terminal apparatus via the wireless communication portion, or from an operation portion provided in the multi-functional peripheral,
- a step for receiving a user information image when succeeding in user authentication based on the user information, and
- an image outputting step for outputting images,
- wherein
- the user interface image is specified depending on the user identification information, and or in accordance with a user operation, the user interface image being any one of images which are (I) an image displayed on a display portion provided in the multi-functional peripheral to operate the multi-functional peripheral directly and displayed on a terminal-side display portion provided in the external terminal apparatus to operate the multi-functional peripheral, (II) an image displayed on the terminal-side display portion to operate the multi-functional peripheral, and (III) an image displayed on the display portion to operate the multi-functional peripheral directly,
- the image outputting step executes image output in accordance with a user operation received from any one of (i) the operation portion or the external terminal apparatus via the wireless communication portion, (ii) the external terminal apparatus via the wireless communication portion, and (iii) the operation portion, in a state where the above images of (I), (II), and (III) are displayed as the user interface image, and
- based on the user operation the multi-functional peripheral changes the user interface image specified in order to facilitate operation by the user.
An external terminal apparatus comprising a wireless communication portion which communicates with a multi-functional peripheral wirelessly, a display portion, and an operation portion, wherein
- when succeeding in user authentication based on user information input from the operation portion including at least user identification information, the external terminal apparatus receives and displays on the display portion a user interface image from the multi-functional peripheral via the wireless communication portion, accepts a user operation in a state where the user interface image is displayed, transmits the user operation to the multi-functional peripheral via the wireless communication portion, and causes the multi-functional peripheral to execute an image output according to the user operation, the user interface image being specified in accordance with a user operation, and
- based on the user operation the multi-functional peripheral changes the user interface image specified in order to facilitate operation by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.