CN112241246A - Image formation control method, apparatus, system, and storage medium - Google Patents
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Abstract
The embodiment of the invention provides an image forming control method, an image forming control device, an image forming control system and a storage medium. Through the technical scheme, the mobile printing driver (the first application program) does not need to be installed on each electronic device, the situation that other devices (second electronic devices) with mobile printing requirements provide larger storage space for installing the mobile printing driver is avoided, and the mobile printing can be realized by data interaction (sending image forming data) between the second application program and the first application program as long as the second electronic device is internally provided with the second application program capable of directly interacting with the first application program.
Description
Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of mobile printing technologies, and in particular, to an image forming control method, apparatus, device, system, and storage medium.
Background
In the prior art, in order to implement mobile printing, a mobile printing driver needs to be installed on a mobile terminal device, and the mobile terminal device needs to send a printing job to a printer through the mobile printing driver, so that the mobile printing can be completed. Such as: both the terminal a and the terminal B have printing requirements, however, both the terminal a and the terminal B need to satisfy the following conditions to realize mobile printing:
firstly, a terminal A and a terminal B need to respectively download and install a mobile printing driver;
secondly, the terminal a and the terminal B need to search and connect to the printer P through the respectively installed mobile print drivers;
thirdly, the terminal a and the terminal B select a print job to send a print instruction to the printer P, and the mobile print job is completed.
However, in implementing the above-described solution in the prior art, there are the following drawbacks:
terminals with mobile printing requirements all need to install a mobile printing driver, however, the downloading and installing steps of the mobile printing driver are cumbersome, and there are also limitations of the terminal device itself, such as storage space, memory space, system version, hardware support, authority authorization, and the like. Therefore, some terminals that satisfy the above conditions need to provide a large storage space for installing the mobile print driver, whereas some terminals that do not satisfy the above conditions cannot implement mobile printing in the above manner.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems, the mobile printing can be realized even if a part of terminals are not provided with a mobile printing driver, and convenience is brought to users.
An embodiment of the present invention provides an image forming control method, executed in a first electronic device, where a first application is embedded in the first electronic device, the method including:
establishing a connection between the first electronic device and a second electronic device different from the first electronic device through the first application program, wherein the first application program is used for directly controlling an image forming device to execute image forming operation;
receiving image forming data sent by a second application program built in the second electronic device through the first application program;
outputting data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application program to perform the image forming operation.
Further, the establishing, by the first application, a connection between the first electronic device and a second electronic device different from the first electronic device specifically includes:
and establishing connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on the identification information corresponding to the first application program and the received connection request which is sent by the second application program arranged in the second electronic device and corresponds to the identification information.
Further, before the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device is established, the method further includes triggering a first preset option corresponding to the first application program, so as to start a connection module built in the first application program, and enable the second application program to obtain the identification information corresponding to the first application program.
Further, the connection module includes a bluetooth connection module, and the first preset option includes a third option for starting the bluetooth connection module, so that the second program acquires bluetooth identification information corresponding to the first application program.
Further, the connection module includes a network connection module, and the first preset option includes a fourth option for triggering the network connection module, so that the second program obtains the network identification information corresponding to the first application program.
Further, before outputting the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application program to perform the image forming operation, the method further includes determining whether the image forming data includes image forming configuration information, and when a determination result is yes, directly outputting the data to be formed to the image forming unit.
Further, the data to be formed is data that can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus, and before outputting the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application program to perform the image forming operation, the converting of the image forming data into the data to be formed by the first application program is further included.
Further, the first electronic device is the image forming apparatus.
Further, before the image forming data sent by a second application program built in the second electronic device is received through the first application program, a second preset option corresponding to the first application program is triggered, so that the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data is directly sent to the image forming unit.
Further, the image forming data includes identification information of a target image forming apparatus, and before outputting data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application to perform the image forming operation, determining the target image forming apparatus that receives the data to be formed according to the identification information of the target image forming apparatus.
An embodiment of the present invention further provides an image forming control method, executed in a second electronic device, where a second application is built in the second electronic device, and the method includes:
establishing, by the second application, a connection between the second electronic device and a first electronic device different from the second electronic device; sending image forming data to a first application program built in the first electronic device through the second application program, so that data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data is output to an image forming unit of the image forming device through the first application program to execute the image forming operation, wherein the first application program is used for directly controlling the image forming device to execute the image forming operation.
Further, the establishing, by the second application, a connection between the second electronic device and a first electronic device different from the second electronic device specifically includes:
acquiring identification information corresponding to the first application program;
and sending a connection request corresponding to the identification information to the first application program through the second application program based on the identification information.
Further, the acquiring the identification information corresponding to the first application program includes: and acquiring Bluetooth identification information corresponding to a Bluetooth connection module built in the first application program.
Further, the acquiring the identification information corresponding to the first application program includes: and acquiring network identification information corresponding to a network connection module built in the first application program.
Further, the image forming data further includes image forming configuration information so that the first application program is directly output to the image forming unit based on the data to be formed.
Further, identification information of a target image forming apparatus is also included in the image forming data, so that the first application program outputs the data to be formed to the image forming unit.
An embodiment of the present invention further provides an image forming control sub-apparatus based on a first electronic apparatus, where the sub-apparatus includes: the image forming apparatus includes a processor and a memory for storing at least one instruction that is loaded and executed by the processor to implement a first electronic device based image forming control method.
An embodiment of the present invention provides an image forming control sub-apparatus based on a second electronic apparatus, wherein the sub-apparatus includes: a processor and a memory for storing at least one instruction which is loaded and executed by the processor to implement a second electronic device based image forming control method.
The embodiment of the invention also provides an electronic device which comprises the image forming control sub-device based on the first electronic device.
The embodiment of the invention also provides an electronic device which comprises the image forming control sub-device based on the second electronic device.
An embodiment of the present invention further provides an image forming apparatus, including:
the image forming control sub-device comprises an image forming control sub-device based on a first electronic device;
an image forming unit for performing an image forming operation.
Embodiments of the present invention also provide an image forming system including one or more first electronic devices, one or more second electronic devices, and one or more image forming apparatuses.
Embodiments of the present invention also provide an image forming system including one or more second electronic devices and one or more image forming apparatuses.
Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when executed by a processor, implements an image formation control method based on a first electronic device or an image formation control method based on a second electronic device.
According to the technical scheme, the first application program (the print driver application with the cross-device interaction function) can be installed on only one first electronic device, and the first electronic device installed with the first application program is used as a receiving end of the image forming data. The second electronic device with the mobile printing requirement does not need to install the first application program, only needs to send the image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device through the second application built in the second electronic device, and sends the image forming data provided by the second electronic device to the corresponding image forming equipment (such as a printer) through the first application program to perform image forming operation. Therefore, a mobile printing driver (a first application program) does not need to be installed on each electronic device, a large storage space is prevented from being provided for installing the mobile printing driver by other devices (second electronic devices) with mobile printing requirements, and mobile printing can be realized by data interaction (image forming data sending) between the second application program and the first application program as long as the second electronic device is internally provided with the second application program capable of directly interacting with the first application program; and because the first application program can directly control the image forming equipment to execute the image forming operation, compared with the method of receiving image forming data by other application programs which are not used for the first application program, the method simplifies the operation of forwarding the data from other application programs to the first application program by a user corresponding to the first electronic device, and brings convenience to the user.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system framework provided by an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a second electronic device implementing mobile printing according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of sending image forming data via system-level Bluetooth according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4A is a signaling diagram for sending image forming data through a customized application according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4B is another signaling diagram for sending image forming data via a customized application according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart illustrating the process of sending image forming data by a three-party application according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an image forming control sub-apparatus based on a first electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an image forming control sub-apparatus based on a second electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8A is a schematic view of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 8B is a schematic structural diagram of another image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system framework provided by an embodiment of the invention, and as shown in fig. 1, the system framework of the invention includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device, and an image forming apparatus. The first electronic device is different from the second electronic device, and the first electronic device and the second electronic device include, but are not limited to, a Personal Computer (PC), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a wireless handheld device, a Tablet Computer (Tablet Computer), a mobile phone, and other devices; the image forming apparatus is used to perform image forming jobs such as generating, printing, receiving, and transmitting image data, and examples of the image forming apparatus include: an inkjet printer, a laser printer, an LED (Light Emitting Diode) printer, a copier, a scanner, or a multifunction Peripheral (MFP) that performs the above functions in a single device.
The first electronic device is provided with a first application program, the first application program is used for directly controlling the image forming equipment to execute the image forming operation, namely after the first electronic device is connected with the image forming equipment, the first electronic device can directly transmit data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming equipment through the first application program to execute the image forming operation without the participation of other equipment such as a server and the like. The first application program may transmit image forming data local to the first electronic device to the image forming apparatus to cause the image forming unit in the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation. The first electronic device can also establish connection with a second electronic device through the built-in first application program, receive image forming data sent by a second application program built in the second electronic device through the first application program, and further output to-be-formed data corresponding to the image forming data sent by the second application program built in the second electronic device to an image forming unit of the image forming device through the first application program, so that the image forming unit in the image forming device executes corresponding image forming operation based on the to-be-formed data.
Further, the first application program includes a data conversion unit for converting the received image forming data into a data format that can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus.
In a preferred embodiment, the system may also include only a second electronic device and an image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus has the first application program built therein, and the image forming apparatus establishes a connection with the second electronic device through the first application program, wherein the first application program is used to directly control the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation, and the image forming apparatus receives, through the first application program, image forming data sent by a second application program built in the second electronic device, and further outputs, through the first application program, to-be-formed data corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus to perform the corresponding image forming operation.
Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart illustrating that a second electronic device implements mobile printing according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, the second electronic device may implement the following steps:
step 201: the second electronic device establishes connection with a first electronic device different from the second electronic device through a built-in second application program;
step 202: the second electronic device sends the image forming data to a first application program built in the first electronic device through a second application program;
step 203: the first electronic device transmits data to be formed corresponding to the received image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus through a built-in first application program to perform an image forming operation.
The following description is made with respect to step 201-203:
establishing a connection between a second electronic device and the second electronic device, which may be a connection between the second electronic device and a first application built in a first electronic device different from the second electronic device through a built-in second application, or a connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device through the first application, specifically includes: the second electronic device acquires identification information corresponding to a first application program built in the first electronic device through a built-in second application program, and sends a connection request corresponding to the identification information to the first application program based on the identification information corresponding to the first application program, and the first application program responds to the connection request corresponding to the identification information sent by the second application program built in the second electronic device and establishes connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
In an embodiment, before the first electronic device establishes a connection with the second electronic device, the method further includes triggering a first preset option corresponding to the first application program, so as to start a connection module built in the first application program, and enable the second application program to obtain identification information corresponding to the first application program. The first preset option may be an option on a display interface of the first electronic device, such as a touch screen, or an option set on a user interface of the first application, and a user may perform an operation on the display interface of the first electronic device or the user interface of the first application or trigger the first preset option, so as to start a connection module built in the first application, so that the user may select an expected connection mode between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. Specifically, the connection module includes a bluetooth connection module and/or a network connection module.
The triggering of the first preset option corresponding to the first application program embedded in the first electronic device may be to trigger a sub-option (a third option) in the first preset option of the first application program based on an operation of a user on the first electronic device, that is, to start the bluetooth connection module embedded in the first application program, so that the second application program embedded in the second electronic device may acquire bluetooth identification information corresponding to the first application program in the first electronic device, the second electronic device sends a bluetooth connection request to the first application program based on the acquired bluetooth identification information corresponding to the first application program, and the first application program responds to the bluetooth connection request sent by the second electronic device to establish bluetooth connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
The triggering of the first preset option corresponding to the first application program embedded in the first electronic device, so as to start the connection module embedded in the first application, may also be that, based on an operation on the user sub-first electronic device, another sub-option (fourth option) in the first preset option of the first application program is triggered, that is, a network connection module embedded in the first application program is started, so that a second application program embedded in the second electronic device may obtain network identification information of the first application program in the first electronic device, the second electronic device sends a network access request to the first application program based on the obtained network identification information corresponding to the first application program, and the first application program responds to the network access request sent by the second electronic device to establish network connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
In an embodiment, the second application program built in the second electronic device may be the same as the first application program or different from the first application program, and is not limited herein. It is to be understood that the first application program or the second application program may be an application program (native app) installed on the electronic device, or may also be a web page program (webApp) of a browser on the electronic device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.
The second electronic device and the first electronic device are connected in the above manner, that is, the second application program can be exchanged with the first application program, so that the second electronic device can send the image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device through the second application program.
The second application program may include a system level application, a customized application for the first application program, and/or other three-party applications.
The system-level application may be a system-level bluetooth program of the second electronic device, and after the second electronic device is connected and paired with the bluetooth connection module of the first application program built in the first electronic device, the system-level bluetooth program of the second electronic device may directly interact with the first application program, where the system-level bluetooth program is a common bluetooth program known to those skilled in the art, and the system-level bluetooth program only has a function of sending data, and cannot configure image forming parameters through the system-level bluetooth program.
The customized application of the first application may be an application developed by a developer of the first application, and the configuration operation of the image forming parameter may be performed by the customized application, and in the data interaction process between the first application and the customized application, the first application and the customized application may be regarded as the same application, so that when the first electronic device and the second electronic device are in the same local area network or the same wide area network, the first application and the customized application may directly implement interaction (cross-device and cross-system interaction).
The three-party application is an application developed by a third party, such as an APP developed by the third party, such as an instant messaging application and a browser. The third-party Application may call an Application Programming Interface (API) or a WEB Application Programming Interface (WEB API) preset between the third-party Application and the first Application, so as to implement a function of directly sending image forming data to the first Application in the first electronic device.
After the second electronic device establishes a connection with the first electronic device through the second application program or the first electronic device establishes a connection with the second electronic device through the first application program, the second electronic device may send the image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device, and the first electronic device outputs data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus through the first application program to perform an image forming operation.
Specifically, the data to be formed may be image forming data or data that is obtained by performing conversion processing on the image forming data to obtain data that can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus, and when the data to be formed is the image forming data, in this embodiment, the first electronic device outputs the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus through a first application program to perform an image forming operation, specifically, the first application program directly outputs the received image forming data to the image forming apparatus, and when the image forming data can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus, the image forming unit of the image forming apparatus performs the image forming operation based on the image forming data; converting, by the image forming apparatus, the image forming data into data that can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus when the image forming data cannot be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus, and thereafter performing an image forming operation by the image forming unit; when the data to be formed is data which can be directly identified by the image forming device, after the first application program receives the image forming data sent by the second electronic device, the first application program converts the image forming data into the data to be formed which can be directly identified by the image forming device, and then the first application program sends the data to be formed to the image forming unit of the image forming device to execute the image forming operation.
Preferably, the first application may be built in the image forming apparatus, that is, the first electronic device is the image forming apparatus, and in this case, the image forming apparatus establishes a connection with the second electronic device based on the first application, and receives the image forming data through the first application, so as to perform an image forming operation according to the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data.
Further, the image forming unit that transmits the data to be formed to the image forming apparatus may autonomously transmit the data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to the image forming apparatus for the first application program after receiving the image forming data, or may trigger the first application program to transmit the data to be formed to the image forming apparatus for the first application program to be operated by the user of the first electronic device after receiving the image forming data.
Preferably, the first application program may also determine whether a preset option for representing that the first application program autonomously sends data to be formed to the image forming apparatus is triggered before/after/while receiving the image forming data, and if the preset option is triggered, the first application program directly outputs the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus without participation of a user corresponding to the first electronic device, where the preset option may be set on a display interface of the first electronic device or a user interface of the first application program, and is not limited herein.
Preferably, the first application program may further determine whether the received image forming data includes image forming configuration information (such as a name of a target image forming apparatus, the number of prints, printing paper, a printing range, and the like) after receiving the image forming data, and if the image forming data includes the image forming configuration information, the first application program directly outputs the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus without involvement of a user corresponding to the first electronic device.
Further, the image forming data further includes identification information of a target image forming apparatus, and after the first application program receives the image forming data, the first application program outputs the data to be formed to the image forming unit corresponding to the target image forming apparatus.
In the following, an operation flow of implementing mobile printing by sending image forming data to a first application program in a first electronic device through a second application program including a system level application, a customized application program or a three-party application in a bluetooth connection scenario or a local area network scenario is described respectively through several embodiments.
Example one
Fig. 3 is a flow chart illustrating the transmission of image forming data by a system level bluetooth program according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 3, the transmission of image forming data by a system level bluetooth program can be realized by performing the following steps:
step 301: the second electronic device searches a Bluetooth connection module built in a first application program built in the first electronic device through a system level Bluetooth program and sends Bluetooth connection request information to the Bluetooth connection module;
step 302: responding to the Bluetooth connection request, and completing Bluetooth pairing between a Bluetooth connection module built in the first application program and the second electronic device, so that the first electronic device is connected with the second electronic device;
step 303: the second electronic device sends the image forming data to the first application program through the system level Bluetooth program;
step 304: the first application program receives the image forming data, converts the received image forming data into the to-be-formed data, and transmits the to-be-formed data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation.
The steps 300-304 are described as follows:
specifically, the image forming data sent by the system level bluetooth program may only include a file to be printed, and at this time, a person on the first electronic device may perform manual configuration in the first application program of the first electronic device according to the received image forming configuration information (for example, the name of the target image forming apparatus, such as the number of copies, the printing paper, and the printing range may be a printing configuration parameter), so as to meet the image forming requirements of the corresponding user on the second electronic device side, which is not limited herein; the image forming data may also include a file to be printed and image forming configuration parameters, which are generated by a user in the configuration of the user interface of another application program, and are not limited herein.
Further, the image forming data may also include target image forming apparatus information, and after the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device is achieved, the first electronic device sends the image forming apparatus information directly connected with the first electronic device to the second electronic device through the first application program for selection by the user, and the target image forming apparatus is determined based on the selection of the user.
After the first application program receives the image forming data sent by the second electronic device, a person on the side of the first electronic device can preview a corresponding file in the image forming data, and if the preview shows that the file has problems (messy codes, missing and the like), the person on the side of the first electronic device can send a prompt message to the second electronic device sending the image forming data through the first electronic device, and the person on the side of the second electronic device is informed to confirm, modify, replace and the like the image forming data. It is determined by the preview that there is no problem with the image forming data, the image forming data is converted into data to be formed, and the data is transmitted to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming operation.
Of course, as can be seen from the foregoing, the first application may autonomously send the image forming apparatus after completing the reception of the image forming data, or may autonomously send the image forming apparatus the corresponding data to be formed when determining that the image forming data includes the image forming configuration parameters.
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Fig. 4A shows a signaling diagram for transmitting image forming data by a customized application according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 4A, transmitting image forming data by a customized application can be implemented by performing the following steps:
step 401: the second electronic device searches a Bluetooth connection module built in a first application program built in the first electronic device through a system level Bluetooth program;
step 402: the second electronic device sends Bluetooth connection request information to the Bluetooth connection module;
step 403: responding to the Bluetooth connection request, and completing Bluetooth pairing between a Bluetooth connection module built in the first application program and the second electronic device, so that the first electronic device is connected with the second electronic device;
step 404: setting image formation configuration information of image formation data in a customized application in response to a user operation instruction to generate image formation configuration information;
step 405: the customized application sends image forming data carrying image forming configuration information to a first application program in the first electronic device through Bluetooth;
step 406: the first application program converts the image forming data into data to be formed according to image forming configuration information in the received image forming data, and sends the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the corresponding image forming device according to a target image forming device name in the image forming configuration information;
step 407: the image forming unit performs a corresponding image forming operation according to the received data to be formed.
The steps 401 and 407 are explained as follows:
before sending image forming data to the first application program on the first electronic device through the customized application on the second electronic device, the second electronic device needs to establish data sharing connection with the bluetooth connection module of the first application program on the first electronic device. If the second electronic device and the bluetooth connection module built in the first application program are in a connected state, the second electronic device can directly send image forming data to the first application program through the customized application without performing the searching and pairing operations.
After the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device is realized, the first electronic device sends the image forming equipment information directly connected with the first electronic device to the second electronic device through the first application program for selection by a user, after the customized application in the second electronic device acquires the equipment information of the image forming equipment sent by the first application program, the user at the side of the second electronic device can determine the available image forming equipment according to the equipment information (the image forming equipment connected with the first application program and the current working state of each image forming equipment) and select a target image forming equipment to execute the image forming operation. The customized application may also send an image forming apparatus information request instruction to the first application program of the first electronic device to acquire apparatus information of the current image forming apparatus before sending the image forming data to the ground application of the first electronic device.
Before the customized application in the second electronic device sends the image forming data to the first application program, image forming configuration information about the image forming data may also be set in the customized application, for example, the image forming configuration information of the image forming data is set as: target image forming apparatus name (P1) number of copies (10 copies), printing paper (a4) printing range (all), and data reception mode (secure mode).
The customized application in the second electronic device transmits image forming data (containing a document to be printed and set image forming configuration information) to a first application program on the first electronic device through Bluetooth, and the first application program converts the image forming data into the data to be formed which can be directly recognized by an image forming apparatus according to the image forming configuration information in the image forming data after receiving the image forming data, and transmits the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus P1 according to a target image forming apparatus name (P1) in the image forming configuration information to perform corresponding image forming operation. Since the data reception mode in the image formation configuration information is the secure mode, the image formation data is encrypted in the customized application of the second electronic device, and the first application program of the first electronic device cannot preview the image formation data after receiving the image formation data, so that privacy of the user data is ensured. If the data reception mode is the normal mode, the encryption processing is not performed on the image forming data, and the first application program of the first electronic device can preview the image forming data.
Fig. 4B shows another signaling diagram for sending image forming data by a customized application according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 4B, sending image forming data by the customized application can be implemented by performing the following steps:
step 411: the second electronic device searches a network connection module built in the first application program in the first electronic device in the wireless network list;
step 412: the second electronic device sends request information of a wireless network joining the network connection module to the network connection module;
step 413: responding to the wireless network access request information, and establishing connection between the first application program and the second electronic device;
step 414: transmitting the device information of the image forming device to a customized application installed in the second electronic apparatus;
step 415: setting image formation configuration information of image formation data in a customized application in response to a user operation instruction to generate image formation configuration information;
step 416: the customized application sends image forming data carrying image forming configuration information to a first application program in the first electronic device through a network;
step 417: the first application program converts the image forming data into to-be-formed data which can be directly identified by the image forming equipment according to the image forming configuration information in the received image forming data, and sends the to-be-formed data to an image forming unit of the corresponding image forming equipment according to the name of the target image forming equipment in the image forming configuration information;
step 418: the image forming unit performs a corresponding image forming operation according to the received data to be formed.
The difference between the technical solutions provided in steps 411-418 and the technical solutions provided in steps 401-407 is that the second electronic device and the first application program in the first electronic device establish an image forming data connection in a different manner, that is, the second electronic device and the first application program in the first electronic device are paired through bluetooth or the second electronic device joins a wireless network of a network connection module built in the first application program in the first electronic device. Other operations can be the same and are not described herein.
EXAMPLE III
Fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a process of transmitting image forming data by a three-party application according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 5, the three-party application may transmit the image forming data by the following steps:
step 501: the second electronic device searches a Bluetooth connection module built in the first application program in the first electronic device through a third party application;
step 502: the second electronic device sends Bluetooth connection request information to the Bluetooth connection module;
step 503: responding to the Bluetooth connection request, the Bluetooth connection module built in the first application program and the second electronic device finish Bluetooth pairing, thereby realizing the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device,
step 504: setting image forming configuration information of image forming data to be transmitted through a three-party application of a second electronic device in response to a user operation instruction;
step 505: in a Bluetooth connection scene, the three-party application calls a preset API (application program interface) to send image forming data to a first application program in the first electronic equipment;
step 506: the first application program converts the image forming data into data to be formed according to image forming configuration information in the received image forming data, and sends the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the corresponding image forming device according to a target image forming device name in the image forming configuration information;
step 507: an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus performs a corresponding image forming operation according to the received data to be formed.
The steps 501-507 are explained as follows:
the preset API interface comprises a third party application on the second electronic device, and the third party application can be realized with the first application program through the API interface so as to interact data.
Before sending image forming data to the first application program on the first electronic device through the three-party application on the second electronic device, the second electronic device is required to establish bluetooth connection with the bluetooth connection module built in the first application program on the first electronic device. If the second electronic device is already connected with the first electronic device through the second application program, the second electronic device does not need to perform the searching and pairing operations, and the three-party application can directly call the API interface to send the image forming data to the first application program.
Similarly, after the third-party application in the second electronic device acquires the device information of the image forming apparatus sent by the first application program of the first electronic device, the user on the second electronic device side may determine the target image forming apparatus to be used according to the device information of the image forming apparatus (the image forming apparatus connected to the first application program and the current operating state of each image forming apparatus), and select one target image forming apparatus to perform the image forming operation.
The three-party application may also transmit a device information request instruction of the image forming apparatus to the first application program of the first electronic device by calling the API interface to acquire device information of the current image forming apparatus before transmitting the image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device.
Before the three-party application in the second electronic device sends the image forming data to the first application program, image forming configuration information about the image forming data may also be set in the three-party application, for example, the image forming configuration information of the image forming data is set as: target image forming apparatus name (P3) number of copies (5 copies), printing paper (a4) printing range (1-10 pages), and data reception mode (secure mode).
The three-party application in the second electronic device calls the API interface to transmit image forming data (including image forming data and set image forming configuration information) to a first application program on the first electronic device in a Bluetooth mode, and the first application program converts the image forming data into data to be formed according to the image forming configuration information in the image forming data after receiving the image forming data and transmits the data to be formed to the image forming device P3 according to a target image forming device name (P3) in the image forming configuration information. It should be noted that, since the data receiving mode in the image formation configuration information of the image formation data is the secure mode, the image formation data is encrypted in the three-party application of the second electronic device, and the first application program of the first electronic device cannot preview the image formation data after receiving the image formation data, so as to ensure privacy of the user data. If the data reception mode is the normal mode, the encryption processing is not performed on the image forming data, and the first application program of the first electronic device can preview the image forming data.
In one implementation, the three-party application may also be enabled to transmit image formation data by:
step 511: the second electronic device searches a network connection module built in the first application program in the first electronic device;
step 512: the second electronic device sends request information of a wireless network joining the network connection module to the network connection module;
step 513: responding to the wireless network access request, and establishing connection between the first application program and the second electronic device;
step 514: setting image forming configuration information in image forming data to be transmitted through a three-party application of a second electronic device in response to a user operation instruction;
step 515: under a network connection scene, the three-party application calls a preset API (application programming interface) to send image forming data to a first application program of the first electronic device;
step 516: the first application program converts the image forming data into data to be formed according to image forming configuration information in the received image forming data, and sends the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the corresponding image forming device according to a target image forming device name in the image forming configuration information;
517: an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus performs a corresponding image forming operation according to the received data to be formed.
The difference between the technical solutions provided in steps 511 and 517 compared with the technical solutions provided in steps 501 and 507 is that the second electronic device and the first application program in the first electronic device establish an image forming data connection in a different manner, that is, the second electronic device and the first application program in the first electronic device are paired through bluetooth or the second electronic device is added to a wireless network of a network connection module built in the first application program in the first electronic device. Other operations can be the same and are not described herein.
The above is an operation flow for realizing short-range mobile printing in a bluetooth connection scene or in a local area network scene.
The following describes, by way of example, an operational flow for implementing remote mobile printing by sending image formation data to a first application program in a first electronic device via a three-way application in a wide area network scenario.
In the case that the second electronic device cannot directly establish image forming data connection with a connection module built in the first application program of the first electronic device, for example, the distance between the first electronic device and the second electronic device exceeds the effective connection range of bluetooth connection or even exceeds the effective connection range of a local area network, the first electronic device and the second electronic device are in different cities, but it can be ensured that three-party applications of the first electronic device and the second electronic device both connected to a network (such as both connected to a cellular mobile communication network) can directly call a network application program interface (WEB API) preset between the first application program of the first electronic device and the three-party application in the second electronic device to send image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device, the first application program converts the image forming data into corresponding data to be formed according to image forming configuration information in the image forming data, and sending the data to be formed to an image forming unit of the corresponding image forming device according to the name of the target image forming device in the image forming configuration information, and then executing corresponding operation to be formed by the image forming unit according to the received data to be formed.
According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that the second electronic device without a printing driver puts forward a mobile printing requirement, the second electronic device establishes connection with a first electronic device different from the second electronic device through a built-in second application program. The bluetooth connection or the network connection can be performed according to the connection mode that the second electronic device and the first electronic device can realize. Furthermore, the second application program built in the second electronic device can send the image forming data to the first application program built in the first electronic device through the connection. The first application program converts the received image forming data into a data format that can be directly recognized by the image forming apparatus through the data conversion unit. And because the first application program can directly control the image forming equipment to execute the image forming operation, compared with the method of receiving image forming data by other application programs which are not used for the first application program, the method simplifies the operation of forwarding the data from other application programs to the first application program by a user corresponding to the first electronic device, and brings convenience to the user.
On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an image formation control sub-apparatus based on a first electronic apparatus, as shown in fig. 6, the apparatus including: a processor 10A and a memory 20A, the memory 20A for storing at least one instruction which is loaded and executed by the processor 10A to implement a first electronic device based image forming control method.
On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an image forming control sub-apparatus based on a second electronic apparatus, as shown in fig. 7, the apparatus including: a processor 10B and a memory 20B, the memory 20B for storing at least one instruction which is loaded and executed by the processor 10B to implement a second electronic device based image forming control method.
On the other hand, the embodiment of the invention also provides an electronic device, which comprises the image forming control sub-device based on the first electronic device.
On the other hand, the embodiment of the invention also provides an electronic device, which comprises the image forming control sub-device based on the second electronic device.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention also provides an image forming apparatus including:
an image formation control unit including an image formation control sub-device based on the first electronic device;
an image forming unit for performing an image forming operation.
On the other hand, embodiments of the present invention also provide an image forming system, which may include one or more first electronic devices D1 to Dn, one or more second electronic devices D1 to Dn, and one or more image forming apparatuses P1 to Pn, as shown in fig. 8A.
In the case that there are a plurality of first electronic devices, if the second electronic device D1 sends the image forming data to the first application program of the first electronic device D1, and then finds that the first application program of the first electronic device D1 is disconnected from the target image forming apparatus (the second electronic device side is not aware of this situation before), the first application program of the first electronic device D1 forwards the image forming data sent by the second electronic device D1 to the first application programs of other first electronic devices (for example, the first application programs of other first electronic devices connected to the target image forming apparatus), and broadcasts the information that the first application program of the first electronic device D1 is disconnected from the target image forming apparatus to the first application programs of the other first electronic devices and all second electronic devices in the scene (for example, all first electronic devices are in the same lan, all the second electronic devices are in the same local area network or wide area network as all the first electronic devices).
On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides another image forming system, as shown in fig. 8B, including one or more image forming apparatuses P1 to Pn and one or more second electronic devices d1 to dn, wherein the one or more image forming apparatuses P1 to Pn have a first application built therein, and the one or more second electronic devices d1 to dn have a second application built therein.
It should be understood that the application may be an application program (native app) installed on the terminal, or may also be a web page program (webApp) of a browser on the terminal, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.
It is clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, the specific working processes of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to the corresponding processes in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not described herein again.
In the embodiments provided in the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and there may be other divisions in actual implementation, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, or in a form of hardware plus a software functional unit.
The integrated unit implemented in the form of a software functional unit may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The software functional unit is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) or a Processor (Processor) to execute some steps of the methods according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.
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1. An image forming control method executed in a first electronic device, wherein a first application is embedded in the first electronic device, the method comprising:
establishing a connection between the first electronic device and a second electronic device different from the first electronic device through the first application program, wherein the first application program is used for directly controlling an image forming device to execute image forming operation;
receiving image forming data sent by a second application program built in the second electronic device through the first application program;
outputting data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application program to perform the image forming operation.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing, by the first application, a connection between the first electronic device and a second electronic device different from the first electronic device includes:
and establishing connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on the identification information corresponding to the first application program and the received connection request which is sent by the second application program arranged in the second electronic device and corresponds to the identification information.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, before establishing the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device, triggering a first preset option corresponding to the first application, so as to start a connection module built in the first application, so that the second application obtains identification information corresponding to the first application.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein before outputting data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data to an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by the first application to perform the image forming operation, further comprising determining whether the image forming data includes image forming configuration information, and when a result of the determination is yes, directly outputting the data to be formed to the image forming unit.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first electronic device is the image forming apparatus.
6. An image forming control method executed in a second electronic device, wherein a second application is embedded in the second electronic device, the method comprising:
establishing, by the second application, a connection between the second electronic device and a first electronic device different from the second electronic device; sending image forming data to a first application program built in the first electronic device through the second application program, so that data to be formed corresponding to the image forming data is output to an image forming unit of the image forming device through the first application program to execute the image forming operation, wherein the first application program is used for directly controlling the image forming device to execute the image forming operation.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the establishing, by the second application, the connection between the second electronic device and the first electronic device different from the second electronic device specifically includes:
acquiring identification information corresponding to the first application program;
and sending a connection request corresponding to the identification information to the first application program through the second application program based on the identification information.
8. An image formation control sub-apparatus based on a first electronic apparatus, the sub-apparatus comprising:
a processor and a memory for storing at least one instruction which is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the image formation control method of any one of claims 1 to 5.
9. An image formation control sub-apparatus based on a second electronic apparatus, the sub-apparatus comprising:
a processor and a memory for storing at least one instruction which is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the image formation control method of claim 6 or 7.
10. An electronic apparatus characterized by comprising the first electronic apparatus-based image formation control sub-apparatus according to claim 8.
11. An image forming apparatus, characterized by comprising:
an image formation control unit including the first electronic device-based image formation control sub-device according to claim 8;
an image forming unit for performing an image forming operation.
12. A computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, the computer program, when executed by a processor, implementing the first electronic device-based image formation control method according to any one of claims 1 to 5 or the second electronic device-based image formation control method according to claim 6 or 7.
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