JP2005196547A - Data composition system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data composition system capable of combining data in a portable terminal with other data and allowing layout of a character in a certain area or paste of image data for reducing work in the portable terminal and generating desired data. <P>SOLUTION: The data composition system, is characterized in that a document format by which a database is generated and print information in the portable terminal are combined into one datum to be outputted to a printer. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a data synthesizing system that, when data is transmitted from a portable terminal, can be combined with other data and printed by a printing device or attached to an e-mail for transmission. .

  Recently, mobile terminals (cell phones, PDAs, other mobile terminals) having functions such as a timekeeping function, a scheduler function, a text creation function, and a communication function have become widespread. Therefore, the user can perform various operations on the mobile terminal, although not as much as the PC.

  In particular, recently, due to the enhancement of communication functions, it has become possible to receive data exchanges with external devices, provision of information from networks that provide various types of information, and the like.

For this reason, a sentence is created by a portable terminal and printed by a printing device, or the created data is attached to an e-mail and transmitted (for example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2000-10745 A

  However, if you try to create text on a mobile device, lay out characters in a certain range (eg, paper size), or paste image data, the display on the mobile device Because of the nature of the handheld device, it was small to make it easy to carry, and such work was difficult.

  In addition, the operation of the portable terminal is difficult because the input buttons are small, and it is difficult to perform a complicated operation because the operation is performed with a combination of a small number of buttons. Therefore, working efficiency is better when the number of operations on the portable terminal is reduced as much as possible.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and its intended process is to combine data on the mobile terminal with other data, lay out characters within a certain range, An object of the present invention is to provide a data synthesizing system capable of pasting image data, reducing work on a portable terminal, and creating desired data.

  The present invention has achieved the above object by the following technical configuration.

  (1) a portable terminal having a sentence creation function and a communication function; a database having a sentence format; a means for creating a sentence format; a means for combining the document format and print information of the portable terminal to obtain the same print data; A data synthesis system comprising: means for outputting print data to a printing apparatus.

  (2) The data synthesizing system further includes means for attaching a document format and print data of a portable terminal to the same data and attaching it to an e-mail. Data synthesis system.

  With the above configuration, the user of the mobile terminal can create data with a desired layout and perform printing without creating data on the mobile terminal or laying out text and image data within a certain range.

  In addition, the user of the mobile terminal can create data in a desired layout and print it by attaching it to an email without creating data on the mobile terminal or laying out text and image data within a certain range. .

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a data composition system in which a user of the mobile terminal 1 can print desired document data with a minimum work on the mobile terminal 1.

  In addition, it is possible to provide a data composition system in which the user of the mobile terminal 1 can attach and send desired document data to an e-mail with minimal work on the mobile terminal 1.

  Thereby, since the report etc. can be created easily when the user of the portable terminal 1 is a service person or a sales person, it can raise to work efficiency much.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  The first embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the entire data synthesis system according to the present embodiment.

  The data output system according to the present embodiment is as follows. 1. mobile terminal, 2. mobile base station; 3. mobile terminal center; 4. Service center Network, 6. 6. printing device; PC etc.

  The portable terminal 1 has a data creation function capable of inputting and creating data by key input or pen input, a clock function, management of personal data such as a scheduler, a communication function (PHS, etc.), position information, and the like. A small portable terminal carried by the user. It is also possible to download a program from the outside to the mobile terminal 1 and execute it. It is also possible to create a document format and register it in the service center 4.

  A large number of mobile base stations 2 are installed to receive radio waves from the mobile terminal 1.

  The mobile terminal center 3 is a mobile terminal service control station that is a parent station of the mobile base station 2, and transmits data of the mobile terminal 1 to the network and transmits data on the network to the mobile terminal 1.

  The service center 4 includes a database 16 having a data document format, and the data sent from the portable terminal 1 and the data on the database 16 can be combined and combined into one file.

  The printing device 6 is a printing device connected to a network. When print data is sent via the network, it prints out.

  The PC 7 is a PC (personal computer) connected to the network, and creates a text format and registers it in the service center.

  Next, the configuration of the service center 4 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The service center 4 includes a communication unit 11, a CPU 12, a RAM 13, a ROM 14, a storage medium 15, a database 16, and the like.

  The communication unit 11 receives the data transmitted from the mobile terminal 1 through the mobile terminal center 3 or from the mobile terminal center 3 and the position information data of the mobile terminal 1, and sends the received data to the information processing device 17. input.

  The information processing device 17 includes a CPU 12, a RAM 13, a ROM 14, a storage medium 15, and the like, and these devices are connected to each other via a bus 18.

  The CPU 12 executes the application program specified from the programs stored in the storage device ROM 14 and the storage medium 15 and various application programs corresponding to the system program, and processes data from the communication unit 11. .

  The RAM 13 includes a storage area that temporarily stores a program that is arithmetically processed by the CPU 12, output data from the communication unit 11, and the like, and reads various stored programs and data. Further, data and the like retrieved from the database 16 are temporarily stored according to the stored various program codes.

  The ROM 14 and the storage medium 15 store programs and data. The storage medium 15 includes a system program and various application programs for the system program, a communication process, an input process, a data process, and the like.

  The storage medium 15 stores processed data and the like.

  The program, data, and the like recorded in the storage medium 15 may be received from other devices connected via a communication line and stored.

  In addition, a storage device including the storage medium may be provided in another device connected via a communication line or the like, and the program and data communication line stored in the storage medium may be used.

  The database 16 is a place where the service center 4 stores a document format set through the communication unit 11.

  Next, the outline of the data synthesis system will be described with reference to FIG.

  The portable terminal 1 transmits data to the service center 4 via the network. In addition, when transmitting data, the data may be transmitted directly to the service center instead of via the network (wireless, infrared, etc). When transmitting, the document format registered in the database of the service center 4 is appended with additional information suitable for the document format (step A1).

  It is also possible to create a document format on the portable terminal 1, register it in the service center 4, and change the document format (step A9).

  The service center 4 receives the data from the portable terminal 1 (step A2), synthesizes the received data with the document format in the database in the service center, and forms one data (step A3). Then, the synthesized data can be sent to the printing apparatus or attached to a mail for transmission (step A4).

  The printing device 6 receives data from the service center 4 (step A5), and prints the received data (step A6).

  The PC 7 receives the combined data attached to the mail (step A7), creates a document format, and sets it to the service center (step A8).

  Next, a detailed document format creation method on the PC 7 and the portable terminal 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 5A, the entire frame 21 is set on the PC 7 or the portable terminal 1 (A4, A3 size, etc.). Then, a text frame 22 for entering text and an image frame 23 for entering images are laid out.

  The information of the document frame 22 has information such as FONT, character size, number of characters, middle alignment, front alignment, and the like, and has information that can be laid out based on the information when character data is input.

  The information of the image frame 23 includes information for determining the image size, for example, information such as adjusting the image to the image frame.

  Then, the created format is registered in the service center 4 in advance.

  In addition, the setting frame 24 in FIG. 5B is arranged such that the time and date when the data is sent is laid out according to the date, time, and ID (terminal terminal number) information of the mobile terminal 1, or the ID is carried by the ID. The user of the terminal 1 is discriminated and the user name is laid out at the place.

  Next, referring to FIG. 4, an example of data creation on the portable terminal 1 and a composition method at the service center 4 will be described.

  An outline of document creation is described in FIG. The document creation mode is selected on the screen on the portable terminal 1 (step B1, FIG. 4B). Next, the document format to be created is selected from the document formats registered in the portable terminal 1 (step B2, FIG. 4C). If the user wants to see the document format, the document format can be displayed (step B3, FIG. 4E). If there is no document format to be created, the user can access the service center and select a document format on the service center (step B4, FIG. 4 (d)).

  Further, it is assumed that the format stored on the portable terminal 1 is registered in the service center 4. When data is transmitted from the portable terminal 1 to the service center 4, information for identifying this format is also transmitted.

  If the user wants to see the document format, the document format can be displayed (step B5, FIG. 4E). After selecting the document format, the process proceeds to the document creation mode (step B6).

  In document creation, a link is made to the document format selected earlier, and a text input location, an image selection location, and the like are displayed. As for the image, it is possible to refer to the image file or to send a drawing created by the drawing window 26 (FIG. 4 (f)).

  When the creation of the document is completed, the transmission button 25 is pressed to transmit to the service center 4 (step B7). At that time, the data sent from the portable terminal 1 and the document format information in the service center 4 can be combined to create desired document data as shown in FIG. 4, the document data is transmitted to the printing device 6, and the printing device 6 prints the data, so that the desired document can be printed out from the portable terminal 1 with a few steps.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, when the service center 4 combines the data transmitted from the portable terminal 1 with the document format and combines the data, the data is transmitted from the service center 4 to the printing apparatus. According to the second aspect of the present invention, data created by the service center 4 is attached to an electronic mail and transmitted.

  FIG. 6 shows a document creation screen.

  When data is transmitted to the service center 4 on the mobile terminal 1, an e-mail address can be added and transmitted so that the service center 4 can transmit by e-mail.

The figure which showed the whole structure of the data composition system concerning this embodiment The figure which showed the flow of data composition of this embodiment in time series The figure which showed the structure of the service center of this embodiment Diagram showing the outline of the document creation mode on a mobile device Figure showing document creation mode selection Figure showing document format selection (on mobile) Figure showing document format selection (on service center) Figure showing the document format screen Figure showing the document creation screen Figure showing the document composition screen Document format layout diagram Document format layout diagram Document creation screen

Explanation of symbols

1 mobile terminal 2 mobile base station 3 mobile terminal center 4 service center 5 network 6 printer 7 PC
11 Communication unit 12 CPU
13 RAM
14 ROM
15 Storage medium 16 Database 17 Information processing device 18 Bus 21 Overall frame 22 Text frame 23 Image frame 24 Setting frame 25 Send button 26 Drawing window 27 E-mail Address
28 Address reference button

Claims (2)

A portable terminal having a text creation function and a communication function;
A database with a sentence format,
A means of creating a sentence format;
Means for combining the document format and the print information of the portable terminal to make the same print data;
Means for outputting print data to a printing device;
A data synthesis system characterized by comprising: In addition to the data synthesis system,
Means for attaching the document format and the print information of the mobile terminal to the same data, attaching it to an e-mail,
The data synthesis system according to claim 1, further comprising:

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