Image forming apparatus with radio frequency identification function and method of using the same
First Claim
1. A method of forming an image that corresponds to an information item about an article in a system comprising an image forming apparatus and the article, the method comprising:
- receiving information items about an article from an RFID tag;
selecting one or more of the information items to receive corresponding detailed information items thereof;
requesting, to a server, one or more detailed information items about the article that correspond to the selected one or more of the information items;
receiving the requested one or more detailed information items from the server; and
forming one or more images corresponding to the received one or more detailed information items.
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Abstract
A method of forming an image that corresponds to an information item about an article having a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The image forming apparatus receives information about the article stored in the RFID tag, requests, from a server, one or more detailed information items about the article that correspond to the received information, and receives the requested one or more detailed information items. The image forming apparatus forms one or more images that correspond to the received one or more detailed information items. The server stores the one or more detailed information items. Accordingly, the image forming apparatus can obtain information about the article at any time.
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40 Claims
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1. A method of forming an image that corresponds to an information item about an article in a system comprising an image forming apparatus and the article, the method comprising:
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receiving information items about an article from an RFID tag; selecting one or more of the information items to receive corresponding detailed information items thereof; requesting, to a server, one or more detailed information items about the article that correspond to the selected one or more of the information items; receiving the requested one or more detailed information items from the server; and forming one or more images corresponding to the received one or more detailed information items. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29)
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22. An image forming apparatus to form an image that corresponds to an information item about an article in a system comprising an image forming apparatus and the article, comprising:
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an RFID reader/writer to receive information about an article through an RFID tag; a control unit to request, to a server, one or more detailed information items about the article that correspond to the received information and to receive the requested one or more detailed information items; a storage unit to store the information received from the RFID tag and the one or more detailed information items received from the server along with a corresponding RFID tag identifier; and an image forming unit to form one or more images that correspond to the received one or more detailed information items. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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30. An image forming system, comprising:
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an article having an RFID tag; an image forming apparatus to request one or more detailed information items associated with user-selected information received from the RFID tag about the article, to receive the requested one or more detailed information items, and to form one or more images according to the received one or more detailed information items; and a server to transmit the requested one or more detailed information items to the image forming apparatus.
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31. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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an RFID receiver and/or writer to receive an RF signal from an external device; a control unit to generate a request signal containing user-selected information from the RF signal to a second external device and to receive detailed information corresponding to the user-selected information of the RF signal according to the request signal from the second external device; and an image forming unit to form one or more images representative of the detailed information according to the user-selected information contained in the RF signal. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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34. A communication system to communicate with an image forming apparatus, the communication system comprising:
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an RFID tag to be attached to an article, the RFID comprising; a memory to store information about the article; and a battery to supply electricity to generate one or more signals about the stored information; a control unit to generate another signal corresponding to information selected by a user from the one or more signals and to transmit the other signal to a remote memory; and an image forming apparatus to form an image according to the information contained in the one or more signals and additional information obtained from the remote memory in response to the other signal. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36)
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37. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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an RFID receiver and/or writer to receive an RF signal transmitted from an external device, the RF signal containing an identifier of the external device; a control unit to receive additional information about the RF signal from a second external device; a storage unit to associatively store information received from the external device, information received from the second external device, and the identifier of the external device responsive to a signal from the control unit; and an image forming unit to form one or more images representative of information in the storage unit associated with the identifier of the external device.
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38. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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an RFID receiver and/or writer to receive an RF signal transmitted from an external device, the RF signal containing user-selectable information items; and a control unit to store additional information about a corresponding one of the user-selectable information items in the RF signal, and to convert the additional information into printing data to form an image according to the converted printing data and information contained in the RF signal.
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39. A method of presenting information on an article comprising:
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receiving an RFID tag identifier and at least one brief information item from an RFID tag associated with the article; transmitting at least the RFID tag identifier to a server to obtain corresponding detailed information items on the article; transmitting the detailed information items to an image forming device; and forming an image on the image forming device representative of the detailed information items.
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40. An information presentation system comprising:
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a wirelessly accessible memory to store abbreviated information descriptive of an article to which the wirelessly accessible memory is attached; a server to store detailed information descriptive of the article; a user interface to display the abbreviated information, to select at least one abbreviated information item responsive to a user input, and to display the detailed information corresponding to the selected abbreviated information item; and a controller to request from the server the detailed information that corresponds to the selected abbreviated information item.
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Specification