Printed Medium Management Apparatus

• US 20080232882A1
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• 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
• Application Number:
  US11/857,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20080232882A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/76
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/46 Printing mechanisms combined with apparatus providing a visual indication
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/50 Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means , e.g. printer combined with RFID writer
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0025 the arrangement consisting of a wireless interrogation device in combination with a device for optically marking the record carrier

Abstract

A printed medium management apparatus includes: a controller that outputs print data generated from file data, and outputs tag data comprising search data including a search word; a print unit that prints an image based on the print data on a recording medium equipped with a non-contact tag; a data recording unit that records the tag data on the non-contact tag; and a search unit that wirelessly communicates with a plurality of non-contact tags, on which search words are recorded by the data recording unit, to search for a non-contact tag on which an inputted search word is recorded.

Claims

1. A printed medium management apparatus comprising:

a controller that outputs print data generated from file data, and outputs tag data comprising search data including a search word;

a print unit that prints an image based on the print data on a recording medium equipped with a non-contact tag;

a data recording unit that records the tag data on the non-contact tag; and

a search unit that wirelessly communicates with a plurality of non-contact tags, on which search words are recorded by the data recording unit, to search for a non-contact tag on which an inputted search word is recorded.

2. The printed medium management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the tag data outputted from the controller comprises the search data and the file data.

3. The printed medium management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the search word included in the search data is inputted by a user.

4. The printed medium management apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the search word included in the search data is machinery extracted from the file data.

5. The printed medium management apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the search unit comprises:

a first search unit that searches for the non-contact tag on which the inputted search word is recorded in the search data; and

a second search unit that searches for the non-contact tag on which the inputted search word is recorded in the file data.

6. The printed medium management apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the search word includes a first search word inputted by a user and a second search word machinery extracted from the file data, and

wherein the first search unit searches for the non-contact tag on which the inputted search word is recorded by searching a plurality of first search words recorded on the plurality of non-contact tags prior to searching a plurality of second search words recorded on the plurality of non-contact tags.

7. A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform operations comprising:

inputting a first search word for file data;

machinery extracting a second search word from the file data; and

outputting the first search word and the second search word to an image forming apparatus.

8. The computer program product according to claim 7,

wherein the outputting outputs the file data.

9. An image forming apparatus comprising;

a communication unit that receives file data, a first search word inputted by a user and a second search word machinery extracted from the file data;

an image forming unit that forms an image based on the file data on a recording medium equipped with a non-contact tag; and

a data recording unit that records the first search word and the second search word on the non-contact tag.

10. The image forming apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the data recording unit records the file data on the non-contact tag.