Data processing apparatus and recording medium

• US 8,125,670 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2007
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ueno, Hideo, Suzuki, Masashi, Koie, Hiroshi, Taki, Kazunari, Ikeno, Takahiro, Hosokawa, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Haskins, Twyler
• Assistant Examiner(s): RODRIGUEZ, LENNIN R
• Application Number:
  US11/860,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20080189574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,618 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host

Abstract

A data processing apparatus includes a data reading unit that reads data from a non-contact tag, and a restoration unit that restores a file when the data reading unit reads, from the non-contact tag, (i) location information indicating a storage location where the file is previously stored and (ii) at least one of a flag indicating that the file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the file, in accordance with the read at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a data recording unit configured to record data on a non-contact tag;

a data specifying unit configured to specify a plurality of files for which location information is to be recorded by the data recording unit on the non-contact tag, the location information for each file indicating

(i) a storage location where the file was originally stored when the location information was saved to the non-contact tag, and

(ii) a file name of the file;

a recording control unit configured to control the data recording unit to record the location information of at least some of the plurality of specified files onto the non-contact tag; and

an image forming unit configured to print image data showing the location information for each of the specified files, onto a surface of a recording medium that includes the non-contact tag to which the data recording unit records data.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording control unit is further configured to selectively record any one of:

(i) the data of each of the specified files;

(ii) the data of each of the specified files and at least one of a flag that indicates that a particular specified file is to be restored and a restoration program for restoring the specified file; and

(iii) the location information and at least one of the flag and the restoration program.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data reading unit configured to read data from a non-contact tag, the data comprising at least location information indicating;

(i) a storage location of where a file was originally stored when the data was saved to the non-contact tag ; and

(ii) a file name of the file; and

a restoration unit configured to restore a file based on the data read from the non-contact tag by finding the file corresponding to the location information and acquiring the data of the file.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the restoration unit is configured to restore the file by:

(i) reading the file data from the tag itself if the file data is stored on the tag in addition to the location information; and

(ii) finding the file corresponding to the location information and acquiring the data of the file if only the location information is stored on the tag.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the restoration unit is further configured to restore the file when the data read from the non-contact tag includes one or both of

(i) a flag indicating that the file is to be restored;

and

(ii) a restoration program for restoring the file.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

a processing unit;

and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide a saving unit that saves the file restored by the restoration unit in a specified storage location.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the saving unit makes a folder structure defined by the location information in the specified storage location and saves the file restored by the restoration unit in the storage location indicated by the location information in the specified storage location.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

a processing unit;

and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide a saving unit that saves the file restored by the restoration unit at the storage location indicated by the location information.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein when the storage location indicated by the location information is not present, the saving unit makes a folder structure defined by the location information and saves the file restored by the restoration unit in the storage location indicated by the location information.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the saving unit,

wherein the terminal further includes the restoration unit.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the saving unit,

wherein the terminal further includes the restoration unit.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the saving unit,

wherein the host further includes the restoration unit.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, comprising:

a terminal including the data reading unit; and

a host including the saving unit,

wherein the host further includes the restoration unit.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

a processing unit;

and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising

a processing unit;

and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing or that the saving unit fails in saving processing.

16. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising

a processing unit;

and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide a failure information generation unit that generates failure information indicating that the restoration unit fails in restoration processing or that the saving unit fails in saving processing.

17. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the restoration unit restores the file by accessing the storage location indicated by the location information.

18. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein when the data read from the non-contact tag by the data reading unit includes the flag indicating that the file is to be restored, the restoration unit automatically restores the file, and

wherein when the data read by the data reading unit does not include the flag, the data read by the data reading unit is displayed.

19. The image processing apparatus according to claim 18, wherein when the data read from the non-contact tag by the data reading unit includes the flag indicating that the file is to be restored and the restoration program for restoring the file, the restoration unit automatically installs the restoration program and restores the file with using the restoration program.

20. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a processing unit; and

memory have executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the image processing apparatus to provide an image data saving unit that, when the data read by the data reading unit includes either one of image data and original data of the image data corresponding to an image formed on a surface of a recording medium equipped with the non-contact tag, saves the either one of the image data and the original data.

21. A non-transitory recording medium comprising:

a non-contact tag storing location information for a plurality of files, the location information for each file indicating

(i) a storage location where the file was originally stored when the location information was saved to the non-contact tag, and

(ii) a file name of the file; and

a surface on which an image showing the location information for each of the plurality of files is formed.

22. The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 21 wherein the non-contact tag further stores one or both of (i) a flag indicating that the file is to be restored by finding the file and acquiring its data;

and (ii) a restoration program that when executed by a processing unit causes the file to be restored.