Print terminal

• US 20050099653A1
• Filed: 11/10/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawaoka, Yoshiki
• Application Number:
  US10/984,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20050099653A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0017 Notifying a communication result
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0051 Card-type connector, e.g. PCMCIA card interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0053 Optical, e.g. using an infrared link
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio

Abstract

The print terminal according to the present invention comprises a communication device for communicating with a server saving an e-mail message attached with an image sent from a user'"'"'s mobile terminal, an information obtaining device for obtaining identification information for identifying an image attached to the e-mail message from the mobile terminal, an image capturing device for capturing the image attached to the e-mail message from the server via the communication device based on the identification information obtained by the information obtaining device, and a printing device for printing the image captured by the image capturing device.

Claims

1. A print terminal comprising:

a communication device for communicating with a server saving an e-mail message attached with an image sent from a user'"'"'s mobile terminal;

an information obtaining device for obtaining identification information for identifying an image attached to the e-mail message from the mobile terminal;

an image capturing device for capturing the image attached to the e-mail message from the server via the communication device based on the identification information obtained by the information obtaining device; and

a printing device for printing the image captured by the image capturing device.

2. The print terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display device for displaying a list of the captured images; and

a print image selection device for selecting an image to be printed from the list of images displayed on the display device,

wherein the printing device prints an image selected by the print image selection device.

3. The print terminal according to claim 1, wherein the identification information for identifying the image is information comprising a receipt number and an authentication code sent from the server to the mobile terminal.

4. The print terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information obtaining device receives print ordering information for an image attached to an e-mail message along with identification information for identifying the image from the mobile terminal, and wherein the printing device prints the image captured by the image capturing device according to the received print ordering information.

5. The print terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information obtaining device is a close range wireless communication device for wirelessly receiving the identification information from the mobile terminal.

6. The print terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information obtaining device comprises an image pickup device for picking up the identification information displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal;

and a decoding device for decoding identification information from the image obtained by the image pickup device.

7. The print terminal according to claim 1, wherein the printing device prints characters of an e-mail message along with an image.

8. The print terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a billing device for charging for printing by the printing device.