Image Forming Apparatus

• US 20080074710A1
• Filed: 09/24/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: TAKI, Kazunari, UENO, Hideo, IKENO, Takahiro, SUZUKI, Masashi, KOIE, Hiroshi, HOSOKAWA, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,089,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/443
• 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 1/32138 in an electronic device attached to the sheet, e.g. in an RFID tag
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image

Abstract

An image forming apparatus comprises: an interface unit which receive a print data and file data; a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium; a writing unit which stores tag data in a non-contact type tag when the recording medium provides the non-contact type tag; a buffer unit in which a file data is stored, the file data is to be stored in the non-contact type tag; and a control unit which controls the printing unit and the writing unit; wherein the control unit stores the file data in the buffer unit when the file data is received, the control unit controls the printing unit to form an image on the recording medium based upon a content of the print data when the print data is received, the control unit controls the writing unit to store the file data stored in the buffer unit in the non-contact type tag.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

an interface unit which receive a print data and file data;

a printing unit which prints an image on a recording medium;

a writing unit which stores tag data in a non-contact type tag when the recording medium provides the non-contact type tag;

a buffer unit in which a file data is stored, the file data is to be stored in the non-contact type tag; and

a control unit which controls the printing unit and the writing unit;

wherein the control unit stores the file data in the buffer unit when the file data is received, the control unit controls the printing unit to form an image on the recording medium based upon a content of the print data when the print data is received, the control unit controls the writing unit to store the file data stored in the buffer unit in the non-contact type tag.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit stores the file data in the non-contact type tags of all of recording mediums to be printed respectively.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file data is a print file.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file data is a print data for all pages, the file data is converted from the print file.

5. A method for forming an image on recording medium that has non-contact type tag, comprising;

a first step in which a file data is stored in a buffer unit when an image forming apparatus receives the file data;

a second step in which the image forming apparatus form an image on the recording medium based upon a print data when the print data is received, the second step in which the image forming apparatus stores the file data stored in the buffer unit in the non-contact type tags of all of recording mediums to be printed respectively.