Printing apparatus for printing data acquired through digital broadcasting

• US 7,936,473 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2007
• Issued: 05/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tatsumi, Setuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Douglas Q
• Application Number:
  US11/703,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20070188801A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,546 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.1, 358/1.13, 358/1.14
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00291 with receiver circuitry television receiver circuitry per se H04N5/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00294 for printing images at a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32625 Fault detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32651 Indicating or reporting details of user-machine interface H04N1/0035
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0036 Detecting or checking connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• 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 printing apparatus prints data acquired through digital broadcasting. The printing apparatus is capable of being connected to a receiving apparatus through a network. The receiving apparatus receives the data transmitted through the digital broadcasting, and has a data storage device storing the received data. The printing apparatus includes: a user interface which is operated by a user of the printing apparatus; a list acquisition device which acquires a print content list through the network in accordance with an operation on the user interface, the print content list being stored in the data storage device; a list display device which displays the print content list acquired by the list acquisition device; and a print data acquisition device with which a print object content to be printed is selected from the print content list displayed on the list display device, and which acquires, through the network, print data of the print object content from the data storage device in accordance with an operation on the user interface. The printing apparatus prints the print data acquired by the print data acquisition device.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus for printing data acquired through digital broadcasting, the printing apparatus capable of being connected to a receiving apparatus through a network, the receiving apparatus receiving the data transmitted through the digital broadcasting and having a data storage device storing the received data, the printing apparatus comprising:

a user interface which is operated by a user of the printing apparatus;

a list acquisition device which acquires a print content list through the network in accordance with an operation on the user interface, the print content list being stored in the data storage device;

a list display device which displays the print content list acquired by the list acquisition device; and

a print data acquisition device with which a print object content to be printed is selected from the print content list displayed on the list display device, and which acquires, through the network, print data of the print object content from the data storage device in accordance with an operation on the user interface,

wherein the printing apparatus prints the print data acquired by the print data acquisition device; and

the printing apparatus is authenticated by the receiving apparatus to restrict use of print contents requiring fees to control charges for the print contents requiring fees.

2. The printing apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein:

the list acquisition device acquires detailed data for each print content contained in the print content list; and

the list display device displays the detailed data acquired by the list acquisition device.

3. The printing apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein when the print data acquired by the print data acquisition device has been normally printed, information that printing has been normally carried out is sent to the receiving apparatus.

4. The printing apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the print content list is selectively displayed on the list display device in accordance with attribute data of the print content.

5. The printing apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein communication between the printing apparatus and the receiving apparatus is started when the list acquisition device sends a signal to acquire the print content list to the receiving apparatus.

6. The printing apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein if communication between the printing apparatus and the receiving apparatus is in an abnormal state when the list acquisition device sends a signal to acquire the print content list to the receiving apparatus, then the printing apparatus outputs information of abnormality of the communication.