Printing system, printing method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTATSUYA HASHIMOTO
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Abstract
A printing system including a provision system that provides a virtual space, a user device for experiencing the virtual space, and a printing apparatus, wherein: the provision system has a reception unit configured to receive operations to print contents corresponding to objects that exist in the virtual space in accordance with operations that the user has executed in the virtual space; the user device has an output unit configured to externally output print data corresponding to the contents in response to an operation to print the contents having been received by the reception unit; and the printing apparatus has a print control unit configured to print the contents by acquiring the print data in response to the operation to print the contents.
Claims9
A printing system including a provision system configured to provide a virtual space, a user device for a user to experience the virtual space, and a printing apparatus, wherein:
- the provision system has at least one processor or circuit configured to function as:
- a reception unit configured to receive operations to print contents corresponding to objects that exist in the virtual space in accordance with operations that the user has executed in the virtual space;
- the user device has at least one processor or circuit configured to function as:
- an output unit configured to externally output print data corresponding to the contents in response to the operation to print the contents having been received by the reception unit;
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- the printing apparatus has at least one processor or circuit configured to function as:
- a print control unit configured to print the contents by acquiring the print data in response to the operation to print the contents.
A printing method relating to a provision system that provides a virtual space, a user device for a user to experience the virtual space, and a printing apparatus, wherein, an operation to print contents corresponding to an object that exists in the virtual space is received from the provision system according to an operation that has been executed by the user in the virtual space;
- print data corresponding to the contents is externally output by the user device in response to the reception unit having received the operation to print the contents;
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- the contents are printed by the printing apparatus acquiring the print data in response to the operation to print the contents.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to store a computer program to control a provision system that provides virtual space, a user device for a user to experience the virtual space, and a printing apparatus, wherein the computer program comprises instructions for executing the following processes:
- the provision system receiving an operation to print contents corresponding to an object that exists in the virtual space according to an operation that has been executed by the user in the virtual space;
- the user device externally outputting the print data corresponding to the contents in response to the reception unit having received the operation to print the contents;
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- the printing apparatus printing the contents by acquiring the print data in response to the operation to print the contents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.