CONTACT HISTORY RECORDING SYSTEM, CONTACT HISTORY RECORDING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20110085709A1
• Filed: 10/06/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Kumakura, Shunichi, WATANABE, Yukio, Aoyama, Motoaki
• Application Number:
  US12/898,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20110085709A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/1657 Wireless connection means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2129 Authenticate client device independently of the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2151 Time stamp

Abstract

A contact history recording system for recording a contact history for each of target portions in an apparatus in cases of being contacted by a person, including: a plurality of transmitters, each installed at each of the target portions; and a receiver which communicates with the plurality of transmitters, wherein each transmitter includes: a memory section which previously stores individual identification information of a target portion where a transmitter is installed; and transmitting section which transmits the individual identification information stored in the memory section in cases where the target portion where the transmitter is installed is contacted by a person, and wherein the receiver includes: a receiving section which receives the individual identification information transmitted from the transmitter; and a control section which inputs the individual identification information received by the receiving section to a recording section to record the inputted individual identification information.

Claims

1. A contact history recording system for recording a contact history for each of target portions of contact detection in an apparatus in cases where the apparatus is contacted by a person, the system comprising:

a plurality of transmitters, each installed at each of the target portions; and

a receiver which communicates with the plurality of transmitter,

wherein each of the plurality of transmitters comprises;

a memory section which previously stores individual identification information of a target portion where a transmitter of the plurality of transmitters is installed; and

a transmitting section which transmits the individual identification information stored in the memory section in cases where the target portion where the transmitter is installed is contacted by a person, and

wherein the receiver comprises;

a receiving section which receives the individual identification information transmitted from the transmitter; and

a control section which inputs the individual identification information received by the receiving section to a recording section to record the inputted individual identification information.

2. The contact history recording system of claim 1, wherein the control section inputs clock time information indicating a clock time of receiving the individual identification information by the receiving section to the recording section, by correlating to the individual identification information.

3. The contact history recording system of claim 1, wherein the receiver comprises an acquisition section to acquire personal identification information of the person, and the control section inputs the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition section into the recording section.

4. The contact history recording system of claim 1, further comprising an electrode connected with the receiving section, the electrode being connected to a portion of a human body of the person other than a portion with which the person touches the target portion,

wherein the transmitter and the receiver form a communication path including the human body of the person between one another, and execute transmission and receiving of the individual identification information via the communication path in cases where the human body connected with the electrode contacts the target portion.

5. The contact history recording system of claim 1, wherein the transmitter and the receiver execute transmission and receiving of the individual identification information via radio communication.

6. The contact history recording system of claim 1, wherein the transmitter comprises a power generation element which generates electric power in cases of being touched by a person and supplies the electric power to the transmitting section, and

wherein the transmitting section transmits the individual identification information in cases of receiving the power supplied by the power generation element.

10. An image processing apparatus for executing image processing utilizing image data, comprising the contact history recording system of claim 1, wherein each of the target portions is set at each of parts constituting the image processing apparatus.

7. A contact history recording method for recording a contact history for each of target portions of contact detection in an apparatus in cases where the apparatus is contacted by a person, the method comprising:

transmitting previously stored individual identification information of a target portion, from a transmitter installed at the target portion contacted by a person among a plurality of transmitters each installed at each of the target portions;

receiving by a receiver the individual identification information transmitted from the transmitter; and

recording the individual identification information received by the receiver in a recording section.

8. The contact history recording method of claim 7, further comprising the step of recording clock time information indicating a clock time of receiving the individual identification information by the receiver by correlating to the individual identification information.

9. The contact history recording method of claim 7, further comprising:

acquiring personal identification information of the person by the receiver, previously to the step of recording the individual identification information; and

recording the personal identification information acquired by the receiver in the recording section, by correlating to the individual identification information.