Image Forming Apparatus

• US 20080074692A1
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: IKENO, Takahiro, SUZUKI, Masashi, HOSOKAWA, Takahiro, TAKI, Kazunari, UENO, Hideo, KOIE, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/859,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20080074692A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00342 with a radio frequency tag transmitter or receiver storage of additional information in an RFID tag attached to an image bearing paper sheet H04N1/32138
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144

Abstract

An image forming apparatus comprises: a printing unit which prints an image on a sheet having a non-contact type tag based upon print data, the non-contact type tag stores tag data and transmits/receives the tag data via a wireless communication; a writing unit which stores the tag data in the non-contact type tag; a data forming unit which forms the print data for 1 sheet based upon a print file which requires a plurality of sheets to be printed; and a control unit which controls the printing unit to print on the sheet based upon the print data for 1 sheet formed by the data forming unit, the control unit which controls the writing unit to store file data corresponding to the print data for 1 sheet to be printed in the non-contact type tag of the sheet as the tag data.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a printing unit which prints an image on a sheet having a non-contact type tag based upon print data, the non-contact type tag stores tag data and transmits/receives the tag data via a wireless communication;

a writing unit which stores the tag data in the non-contact type tag;

a data forming unit which forms the print data for 1 sheet based upon a print file which requires a plurality of sheets to be printed; and

a control unit which controls the printing unit to print on the sheet based upon the print data for 1 sheet formed by the data forming unit, the control unit which controls the writing unit to store file data corresponding to the print data for 1 sheet to be printed in the non-contact type tag of the sheet as the tag data.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data forming unit forms the file data that including the print data for printing 1 sheet based upon the print file.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit forms the file data based upon the print data for the 1 sheet formed by the data forming unit.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further stores a file data corresponding to at least one sheet of preceding and succeeding sheets to be printed in the non-contact type tag of the sheet as the tag data.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a storage capacity of the file data for the 1 sheet is large and the file data cannot be stored in the non-contact type tag of the sheet, the control unit controls the writing unit to store a portion of the file data in the non-contact type tag of the sheet;

and the control unit controls the writing unit to store a remaining portion of the file data in a non-contact type tag of another sheet.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the control unit controls the writing unit to store the portion of the file data in the non-contact type tag of the sheet, and controls the printing unit to print on the sheet in correspondence with the portion of the file data;

and the control unit controls the writing unit to store the remaining portion of the file data in the non-contact type tag of the another sheet, and controls the printing unit to print on the another sheet in correspondence with the remaining portion of the file data.

7. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a printing unit which prints an image on a sheet having a non-contact type tag based upon print data, the non-contact type tag stores tag data and transmits/receives the tag data via a wireless communication;

a writing unit which stores the tag data in the non-contact type tag;

a data forming unit which forms the print data for 1 sheet based upon a print file which requires a plurality of sheets to be printed; and

a control unit which controls the printing unit to print on the sheet based upon the print data for 1 sheet formed by the data forming unit, the control unit which controls the writing unit to store the print data for 1 sheet to be printed in the non-contact type tag of the sheet as the tag data.

8. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a printing unit which prints an image on a sheet having a non-contact type tag based upon print data, the non-contact type tag stores tag data and transmits/receives the tag data via a wireless communication;

a writing unit which stores the tag data in the non-contact type tag;

a data forming unit which forms the print data for 1 sheet based upon a print file which requires a plurality of sheets to be printed, the data forming unit forms the file data corresponding to the print data for 1 sheet based upon the print file, the data forming unit divides the file data corresponding to the print data for 1 sheet into some file data; and

a control unit which controls the printing unit to print on the sheet based upon the print data for 1 sheet formed by the data forming unit, the control unit which controls the writing unit to store each divided file data respectively in the non-contact type tags of a plurality of sheets to be printed as the tag data.