Portable terminal and computer readable storage medium

• US 9,571,783 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2013
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Kuromatsu, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Hai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tang, Son M
• Application Number:
  US13/785,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20130235219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10158 methods and means used by the interrogation device for reliably powering the wireless record carriers using an electromagnetic interrogation field
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A portable terminal and a computer readable storage medium are described. According to one implementation, a portable terminal includes, a storage section, an imaging section, a notifying section and a control section. The storage section stores item identification information to identify an item with a RFID tag attached corresponded with tag position information which shows a position of the RFID tag. The control section retrieves item identification information of an item corresponding to image data imaged by the imaging section from the stored item identification information, and allows the notifying section to notify the tag position information corresponding to the retrieved item identification information.

Claims

1. A portable terminal including an imaging section, comprising:

a storage control section which stores, in a storage section, item identification information to identify an item with a wireless ID tag internally mounted inside the item and corresponding internally mounted position information which identifies a position of where the wireless ID tag is mounted inside the item;

a retrieving section which retrieves from the storage section the stored item identification information of the item corresponding to image data imaged by the imaging section and reads out the internally mounted position information corresponding to the retrieved item identification information when the wireless ID tag is not yet detected; and

a display control section which displays, on a display screen, the image data imaged by the imaging section and a mark overlaying the item in the image data showing the position of where the wireless ID tag is mounted inside the item according to the internally mounted position information read out from the storage section by the retrieving section.

2. The portable terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reading section which reads information of the wireless ID tag; and

a reading control section which allows the reading section to start reading the information of the wireless ID tag after the display control section displays the mark overlaying the image data showing the position of where the wireless ID tag is attached to the item.

3. The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the stored item identification information is image data of the item;

and

the display control section retrieves the stored image data of the item which matches a subject of the image data imaged by the imaging section.

4. The portable terminal according to claim 3, further comprising:

an operation section which receives input of an operation, wherein the storage control section obtains the stored image data of the item and stores in the storage section the tag position information received during the inputted operation that corresponds to the stored image data.

5. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the item identification information is image data of a mark to identify the item;

the imaging section images the mark attached to the item; and

the retrieving section retrieves the image data of the mark which matches a subject of the image data imaged by the imaging section.

6. The portable terminal according to claim 5, further comprising:

an operation section which receives input of an operation; and

a print section which prints an image of the image data, wherein

the storage control section sets the image data of the mark corresponding to the item, allows the print section to print the mark with the set image data, and stores in the storage section the tag position information received during the inputted operation that corresponds to the set image data.

7. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the item identification information is code information of a symbol to identify the item;

the imaging section images the symbol attached to the item; and

the retrieving section decodes the image data imaged by the imaging section to obtain the code information and retrieves the obtained code information from the code information stored in the storage section.

8. The portable terminal according to claim 7, further comprising:

an operation section which receives input of an operation; and

a print section which prints an image of the image data,

wherein the storage control section generates code information corresponding to the item and image data of the symbol including the code information, allows the print section to print the symbol with the generated image data, and stores in the storage section the tag position information received during the inputted operation that corresponds to the generated code information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon for controlling a computer of a portable terminal including an imaging section to execute the following process:

storing, in a storage section, item identification information to identify an item with a wireless ID tag internally mounted inside the item and corresponding internally mounted position information which shows a position of where the wireless ID tag is mounted inside the item;

retrieving from the storage section the stored item identification information of the item corresponding to image data imaged by the imaging section and reading out the internally mounted position information corresponding to the retrieved item identification information when the wireless ID tag is not yet detected; and

displaying, on a display screen, the image data imaged by the imaging section and a mark overlaying the item in the image data showing the position of where the wireless ID tag is mounted inside the item according to the internally mounted position information read out from the storage section by the retrieving section.

10. A portable terminal, comprising:

a storage control section that stores, in a storage section, a captured image of an item and position information of where an RFID tag is internally mounted inside the item, wherein the position information is inputted into the portable terminal during a registration process for the item;

an imaging section that images a first instance of the item as the captured image during the registration process and images a second instance of the item during a reading process;

a retrieving section that determines, in response to the reading process, whether the second instance of the item matches the stored captured image when the wireless ID tag is not yet detected; and

a display control section that displays, on a display screen and in response to the determination that the second instance of the item matches the stored captured image, the second instance of the item including a mark overlaying the second instance of the item showing a position of where the RFID tag is internally mounted inside the item according to the stored position information inputted into the portable terminal.