Electronic apparatus operating system

• US 7,822,411 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2006
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nakatani, Atsuhito
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang; Kent
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DINH
• Application Number:
  US11/639,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20070133843A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• Field of Search: 235/435, 382/115, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/412.1, 455/414.1, 455/415, 455/418, 455/419, 455/424, 455/425, 455/517, 370/328, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3276 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being read by the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00

Abstract

When a user validation portion validates that a person is present adjacent to an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus generates an identification code, converts the identification code to a QR code, and displays the QR code on an identification code display portion. When the QR code that has been displayed has been inputted with an identification code input portion to allow an operation portion to assign operation for the electronic apparatus, an operation portion transmits operation information that indicates the operation that has been assigned and the identification code to which the QR code that has been inputted has been decoded. When the identification code that has been received by the electronic apparatus corresponds to the identification code that has been displayed thereon, the electronic apparatus executes the process according to the operation indicated by the operation information that has been received thereby.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus operating system comprising:

an electronic apparatus including a generating portion for generating identification information which identifies the electronic apparatus and an output portion for outputting the identification information that has been generated by the generating portion;

an operation apparatus including an input portion for inputting the identification information that has been outputted by the output portion of the electronic apparatus, an operation portion for inputting operation information for operating the electronic apparatus, and a transmission portion for transmitting the identification information that has been inputted by the input portion and the operation information that has been inputted by the operation portion; and

a transfer portion for transferring the identification information and operation information that has been transmitted by the transmission portion of the operation apparatus to the electronic apparatus identified by the identification information;

wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a reception portion for receiving the identification information and operation information transmitted from the transfer portion, and executes the process according to the operation indicated by the operation information that has been received by the reception portion.

2. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein when the identification information that has been received by the reception portion corresponds to the identification information that has been generated by the generating portion, the electronic apparatus executes the process according to the operation indicated by the operation information that has been received by the reception portion.

3. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises:

a user validation portion for validating that a user is present adjacent to the electronic apparatus in the predetermined area centered on the electronic apparatus; and

a control portion for causing the generating portion to generate the identification information and then causing the output portion to output the identification information that has been generated by the generating portion, when the user validation portion validates that a user is present in the predetermined area centered on the electronic apparatus.

4. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 3, wherein after the process according to the operation indicated by the operation information that has been received from the transfer portion is finished, or when the user validation portion does not validate that a user is present in the predetermined area centered on the electronic apparatus, the control portion causes the identification information that has been outputted through the output portion to be erased, and when the user validation portion newly validates that a user is present in the predetermined area centered on the electronic apparatus, the control portion causes identification information to be newly generated and causes the output portion to output the identification information that has been newly generated.

5. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein the output portion of the electronic apparatus is a display panel, and

the input portion of the operation apparatus is an imaging portion that images the identification code that has been displayed on the display panel.

6. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein the operation apparatus further includes a storage portion for storing the operation information that has been inputted by the operation portion, and the transmission portion transmits the operation information that has been selected by the operation portion out of the identification information that has been inputted by the input portion and the operation information that has been stored in the storage portion.

7. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein the operation apparatus further includes a storage portion for storing the identification information and the operation information each that has been transmitted by the transmission portion, and an extracting portion for extracting the operation information from the identification information and the operation information each that has been stored in the storage portion, and

the transmission portion transmits the operation information that has been selected by the operation portion and the identification information that has been inputted by the input portion out of the operation information that has been extracted by the extracting portion.

8. The electronic apparatus operating system of claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus further includes a WEB server function,

the operation apparatus further includes a WEB browser function,

the identification information includes a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the WEB server function of the electronic apparatus, and

the WEB browser function accesses the WEB server function by assigning the URL.