Abstract:
This invention provides a technique which allows the user to select whether or not to make print settings without any special operation such as key operations or button operations upon printing information held by a mobile terminal using a printer. To this end, in a case where it is detected that a mobile terminal is located with an NFC communication range, an NFC communication is established to exchange information so as to prepare for transition to a BT communication, information to be printed is received via the BT communication, thus printing the information. At this time, only in a case where an established state of the NFC communication is continued for a predetermined period of time since the NFC communication is established, a detailed print setting menu is displayed.
Abstract:
Techniques describe opportunistically capturing and tagging images with wireless information by a mobile device. The tagged image may be transmitted to a remote server, such as a crowdsourcing server, where the location at which the image was captured may be determined using visual features from the image. An association between the location and the wireless measurements may be used in building/maintaining a heatmap. In one embodiment, techniques are described for setting camera parameters for opportunistically capturing images and may include receiving at least one signal associated with at least one signal emitting device, determining information associated with the at least one signal emitting device using the at least one signal, setting at least one camera parameter for a camera coupled to the mobile device based on the information associated with the at least one signal emitting device, and capturing one or more images using the at least one camera parameter.
Abstract:
There is provided a further saving in power consumption which is achieved by establishing an optimal transition from an ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode. A mode switching management part (11c) as a mode switching part, while a communication of a managing part (11a) as a communication part to a mobile terminal (20) is being established, maintains an ordinary operation mode and when the communication of the management part (11a) to the mobile terminal (20) terminates, switches from the ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode before an elapse of a specified power consumption saving time period.
Abstract:
An image forming system includes a portable terminal, an information processing terminal, and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal has an imaging function. The information processing terminal generates print data. The image forming apparatus generates a printed matter based on the print data received from the information processing terminal. The portable terminal includes an imaging unit, an information acquiring unit, a preview image generating unit, and a display unit. The imaging unit images the preview-display code displayed in the display unit of the information processing terminal. The information acquiring unit acquires information necessary for the preview display based on the preview-display code acquired by the imaging unit. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image of the printed matter according to the information acquired by the information acquiring unit. The display unit displays the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit.
Abstract:
An image forming system includes a portable terminal, an information processing terminal, and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal has an imaging function. The information processing terminal generates print data. The image forming apparatus generates a printed matter based on the print data received from the information processing terminal. The portable terminal includes an imaging unit, an information acquiring unit, a preview image generating unit, and a display unit. The imaging unit images the preview-display code displayed in the display unit of the information processing terminal. The information acquiring unit acquires information necessary for the preview display based on the preview-display code acquired by the imaging unit. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image of the printed matter according to the information acquired by the information acquiring unit. The display unit displays the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for printing a digital image on a piece of media by means of a printer system comprising a printer and a computer for storing digital objects, the method comprising the steps of printing at least one digital image on a piece of media, cutting the printed at least one digital image out of the piece of media, attaching an identifying object to the leftover of the piece of media, storing the leftover of the piece of media in a depository, and storing a digital object representing the leftover of the piece of media in a database on the computer, wherein the digital object comprises a reference to the attached identifying object. The invention also relates to a method for printing a print job on a printer system, the method comprises the steps of submitting a print job for printing at least one digital image to the printer system, selecting a digital object from a database comprising digital objects representing a collection of leftovers of pieces of media in a depository and each comprising a reference to an identifying object of the corresponding leftover, wherein the leftover represented by the selected digital object is large enough to print the at least one digital image upon said leftover, retrieving the reference from the selected digital object, locating in the depository the leftover represented by the digital object by means of the retrieved reference, and printing the at least one digital image on the leftover.
Abstract:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for a mobile terminal configured to communicate with first and second scanning devices which exist within a communicatable range of an NFC (near field wireless communication), the recording medium storing instructions which cause the mobile device to, when the NFC is established between the mobile terminal and a particular scanning device, which is one of the first and second scanning devices, transmit to the particular scanning device a scan command to instruct to generate scan data, execute a determination process to determine which of the first and second scanning devices is the particular scanning device, and only when the first scanning device is the particular scanning device, execute a first process to store the scan data in a first storage server which corresponds to the first scanning device, the scan data being generated in the particular scanner device based on the scan command.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is provided that is capable of returning from a sleep state in response to detection of a user or upon receipt of an input, wherein notification of failure to detect a user is provided if the image forming apparatus returns from a sleep state based on receipt of an input for more than a predetermined number of times.
Abstract:
An information providing apparatus sends an image forming instruction to an image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to form an image to generate image data and transmit the image data to the information providing apparatus, stores the image data received from the image forming apparatus in a memory area of a memory, and stores identification information that uniquely identifies the image data and information indicating the memory area to which the image data is stored in association with each other to generate management information in the memory.
Abstract:
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a portable terminal. The image forming apparatus includes: a preview image creating circuit that creates preview image data from image data; and a preview image transmitting circuit that transmits the preview image data to the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a preview image data receiving circuit that receives the preview image data from the image forming apparatus; a preview image display circuit that displays an image of the preview image data; and a page orientation setting circuit that sets the page orientation whether a top side of the original document is an upper side, or a top side of the original document is a left side corresponding to a direction of the image of the preview image data.