Image forming apparatus supporting near-field communication (NFC) function, and method of previewing scan data of image forming apparatus on mobile terminal
AssigneeS-Printing Solution Co., Ltd.
InventorSe-yong Um
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus supporting a near-field communication (NFC) function generates scan data by scanning a document, transmits the scan data to a server, receives access information for accessing a preview image of the scan data stored in the server, tags a mobile terminal on which the preview image is to be displayed through NFC, and transmits the access information to the tagged mobile terminal.
Claims21
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a scanner to generate scan data by scanning a document;
- a transceiver to:
- transmit the scan data to a server, and
- receive access information for accessing a preview image of the scan data stored in the server from the server;
- a near-field communication (NFC) transceiver to
- tag a mobile terminal on which the preview image is to be displayed through NFC, and
- transmit the access information for accessing the preview image of the scan data stored in the server when the mobile terminal tags an NFC tag of the image forming apparatus;
- and
- at least one processor.
A mobile terminal supporting near-field communication (NFC), the mobile terminal comprising:
- an NFC transceiver to:
- tag an image forming apparatus which stores scan data in a server, and
- receive access information for accessing a preview image of the scan data stored in the server when the mobile terminal tags an NFC tag of the image forming apparatus;
- a transceiver to:
- transmit the access information for accessing the preview image of the scan data stored in the server to the server, and
- receive the preview image from the server based on the access information;
- and
- a touch screen to display the preview image.
A method of providing a preview image of scan data of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- generating the scan data by scanning a document;
- transmitting the scan data to a server;
- receiving, from the server, access information for accessing the preview image of the scan data stored in the server;
- tagging a mobile terminal on which the preview image is to be displayed through near-field communication (NFC);
- and
- transmitting, through NFC, the access information to the tagged mobile terminal when the mobile terminal tags an NFC tag of the image forming apparatus.
A method of previewing scan data of an image forming apparatus on a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- tagging the image forming apparatus that stores the scan data in a server;
- receiving, from the image forming apparatus through near field communication (NFC), access information for accessing a preview image of the scan data stored in the server when the mobile terminal tags an NFC tag of the image forming apparatus;
- receiving the preview image from the server, based on the access information;
- and
- displaying the preview image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.