MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20150085307A1
• Filed: 08/18/2014
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Kaoru, Tonouchi, Yojiro, Imoto, Kazunori, Mihara, Isao
• Application Number:
  US14/462,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20150085307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1203 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1237 Print job management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1267 Job repository, e.g. non-scheduled jobs, delay printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1271 Job submission at the printing node, e.g. creating a job from a data stored locally or remotely G06F3/1238 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3295 Deletion of stored data; Preventing such deletion

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a management system includes a first storage, a first generator, a second generator, a second storage, and a printer. The first storage is configured to store therein content data. The first generator is configured to acquire the content data and address data where the content data is stored, from the first storage, and generate a drawing command for printing the content data from the content data. The second generator is configured to generate image data of the content data according to the drawing command. The second storage is configured to store therein the address data and tag data based on the image data in association with each other. The printer is configured to generate a printed medium by printing the image data on a medium.

Claims

1. A management system comprising:

first storage configured to store content data;

a first generator configured to acquire the content data and address data where the content data is stored, from the first storage, and generate a drawing command for printing the content data;

a second generator configured to generate image data of the content data according to the drawing command;

a second storage configured to store the address data and tag data based on the image data in association with each other; and

a printer configured to generate a printed medium by printing the image data on a medium.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a changing controller configured to monitor the content data stored in the first storage, and to change, in response to a change on the content data, the address data of the content data stored in the second storage in accordance with the change.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the changing controller is configured to, when the change indicates a renaming that changes a name of the content data or a transfer that changes the area where the content data is stored in the first storage, acquire address data where the content data is stored after the renaming or the transfer, and change an address data of the content data stored in the second storage to the acquired address data.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the changing controller is configured to, when the change indicates a deletion of the content data, acquire the content data from the first storage before the deletion of the content data, and change the address data of the content data stored in the second storage to the acquired content data.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reader configured to electrically read the printed medium to generate media image data;

a searching controller configured to search the second storage for tag data in which a degree of similarity with query data based on the media image data is equal to or greater than a threshold, and acquire address data associated with the tag data; and

a processor configured to perform processing based on the address data acquired by the searching controller.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein

the tag data comprises the image data,

the query data comprises the media image data, and

the processor is configured to further perform processing based on the media image data and the image data retrieved by the searching controller.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to extract, from the media image data, additional data in the media image data by referring to the image data retrieved by the searching controller, and store the additional data in the first storage in association with the content data using the address data.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to extract, from the media image data, additional data in the media image data by referring to the image data retrieved by the searching controller, acquire the content data from the first storage using the address data, and output the content data and the additional data.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to extract, from the media image data, additional data in the media image data by referring to the image data retrieved by the searching controller, acquire the content data from the first storage using the address data, generate additional content data by adding the additional data to the acquired content data, and store the additional content data in the first storage.

10. The system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to extract, from the media image data, additional data in the media image data by referring to the image data retrieved by the searching controller, acquire the content data from the first storage using the address data, generate additional content data by adding the additional data to the acquired content data, and output the additional content data.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the first generator is configured to, when a first instruction indicates registration, acquire, from the first storage, the content data and the address data where the content data is stored and generate a drawing command for printing the content data, and

the second storage is configured to store the tag data and the address data in association with each other when the first instruction indicates registration.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein

the first generator is configured to acquire the content data from the first storage and generate a drawing command for printing the content data when the first instruction indicates no registration, and

the second storage is configured not to store the tag data or the address data when the first instruction indicates no registration.

13. The system according to claim 5, wherein

the tag data includes the image data and first-letter data of a first letter included in the image data,

the query data includes the media image data and second-letter data of a second letter included in the media image data, and

the searching controller is configured to, when a second instruction indicates image, search the second storage for image data in which a degree of similarity with the media image data is equal to or greater than a threshold, and acquire address data associated with the image data.

14. The system according to claim 5, wherein

the tag data comprises the image data and first-letter data of a first letter in the image data,

the query data comprises the media image data and second-letter data of a second letter in the media image data, and

the searching controller is configured to, when a second instruction comprises letter, search the second storage for the first-letter data in which a degree of similarity with the second-letter data is equal to or greater than a threshold, and acquire address data associated with the first-letter data.

15. An image forming device comprising:

a generator configured to receive a drawing command for printing content data stored in a storage device, and address data where the content data is stored in the storage device, and generate image data of the content data according to the drawing command;

storage configured to store the address data and tag data based on the image data in association with each other; and

a printer configured to print the image data on a medium and generate a printed medium.

16. A terminal device comprising:

a generator configured to acquire, from a storage device, content data and address data where the content data is stored, generate a drawing command for printing the content data, and output the drawing command and the address data to an external device that manages the address data and tag data based on the drawing command in association with each other.