DATA PRINTING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20130258404A1
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: OE, Ryo, TABATA, Shinichirou
• Granted Patent: US 9,077,826 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00281 with a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call terminal details of transmission H04N1/00095; establishing a communication with one of a facsimile machine or another apparatus sharing a single line H04N1/32704; interfacing cordless telephone terminals with an accessory to increase the functionality of user interface H04M1/72409
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0074 Arrangements for the control of a still picture apparatus by the connected apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

The present invention allows desired printing to be easily achieved not with complex operation but with intuitive operation. In the present invention, short-range communications can be made between a portable terminal device and a copy machine. When the portable terminal device is placed on a placement table of the copy machine, the copy machine detects the placement state of the portable terminal device (for example, landscape orientation or portrait orientation), determines a print format (for example, printing in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction as a printing direction) according to this placement state, and performs printing of print data received from the portable terminal device according to the print format.

Claims

1. A data printing system including a printing device for receiving and printing print data and a portable terminal device for transmitting the print data to the printing device, comprising:

a state identifying section which identifies a placement state of the portable terminal device;

a determining section which determines print control information according to the placement state identified by the state identifying section;

a receiving section which receives print data from the portable terminal device; and

a printing section which prints the print data according to the print control information determined by the determining section.

2. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the state identifying section identifies the placement state of the portable terminal device placed on the printing device from among a plurality of placement states of different types,

wherein the determining section determines the print control information corresponding to each of the plurality of placement states identified by the state identifying section, and

wherein the printing section controls printing of the print data according to the plurality of print control information determined by the determining section.

3. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the state identifying section identifies an orientation of the portable terminal device placed on a placement surface of the printing device as the placement state.

4. The data printing system according to claim 3, wherein the state identifying section identifies as to whether the portable terminal device placed on the placement surface of the printing device is placed in landscape orientation or portrait orientation, as the placement state, and

the determining section determines the print control information indicative of printing in a horizontal direction when the placement state identified by the state identifying section corresponds to landscape orientation, and the print control information indicative of printing in a vertical direction when the placement state corresponds to portrait orientation.

5. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the state identifying section identifies a form of the portable terminal device placed on a placement surface of the printing device, as the placement state.

6. The data printing system according to claim 5, wherein the determining section determines the print control information that sets an area similar to the form of the portable terminal device identified as the placement state by the state identifying section, as a print range.

7. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the state identifying section identifies a position of the portable terminal device placed on a placement surface of the printing device, as the placement state.

8. The data printing system according to claim 7, wherein the determining section determines the print control information indicative of a paper size according to the position of the portable terminal device identified as the placement state by the state identifying section.

9. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the state identifying section identifies a placement count of the portable terminal device placed on a placement surface of the printing device, as the placement state.

10. The data printing system according to claim 9, wherein the determining section determines the print control information indicative of number of divisional areas for printing by dividing a paper sheet into a plurality of areas, when determining the print control information based on the placement count identified by the state identifying section as the placement state;

and

wherein the printing section performs printing for each area while allocating different data to each of the divisional areas obtained by dividing the paper sheet according to the number of divisional areas, when printing according to the print control information determined by the determining section.

11. The data printing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing device comprises the state identifying section, the determining section, and the printing section.

12. A portable terminal device comprising:

a state identifying section which identifies a placement state of a main body of the portable terminal device;

a determining section which determines print control information according to the placement state identified by the state identifying section; and

a transmitting section which transmits the print control information determined by the determining section and print data to a printing device.

13. The portable terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the state identifying section identifies a plurality of placement states of different types, and the determining section determines the print control information corresponding to each of the plurality of placement states identified by the state identifying section.

14. The portable terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the state identifying section identifies orientation of the main body of the device as the placement state.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a program that is executable by a computer, the program being executable by the computer to perform functions comprising:

processing for identifying a placement state of a main body of a device;

processing for determining the print control information according to the identified placement state; and

processing for transmitting the determined print control information and print data to a printing device.