JP2010069720A - Printer for mobile terminal data - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer for mobile terminal data, which outputs the data without a mobile terminal connected thereto, provides the easy-to-use data and suppresses waste of a printing sheet of paper. <P>SOLUTION: The printer includes: a receiver 3 for receiving data wirelessly sent from a cellular phone 2; a storage 8 for storing the data received by the receiver 3; an information processor 5 for selecting data out of the data stored in the storage 8, and for arranging and outputting the data in a predetermined display form; a printing section 7 for printing the data outputted from the information processor 5; and an operator 6, operated by a user, and inputting data-output directions into the information processor 5. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal data printing apparatus for printing data of a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, mobile terminals such as mobile phones have become multifunctional, and the situation for receiving images and e-mails and storing business memos has increased, so a technique for printing a plurality of data in a mobile terminal Is required.

  As a conventional technique of this type, Patent Document 1 discloses a data printing system for a cellular phone that includes a printer in which a cellular phone is detachably connected via a connection cord and receives data from the cellular phone by data receiving means. Are listed. In the above configuration, with the cellular phone connected to the printer via the connection cord, the cellular phone data is transmitted, received by the printer data receiving means, and printed. Thereby, the mobile phone data can be printed without using a peripheral device such as a personal computer or a mobile computer.

Further, in Patent Document 2, a print order control module that constructs a print server searches each print job in a document queue according to a sort extraction condition arbitrarily set in a condition storage table. Information that matches the extraction conditions is extracted from the print data, and the printing order of a plurality of print jobs is changed using each extracted information as a key, and a plurality of print jobs are printed for each job according to this printing order. A print control apparatus is described. With the configuration described above, it is possible to realize print control in which the print order of a plurality of print jobs is automatically changed without performing any special operation for each print.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-241911 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-280843

  However, in the prior art described in Patent Document 1, when outputting a plurality of data in a mobile phone, a large amount of blank space is left because one data is printed on one sheet, so There was a problem of waste. In addition, since the data in the mobile phone is stored in a simple format, it may be difficult to utilize the printed output data, and if the mobile phone is in an environment where it cannot be connected to the printer via the connection cord There was also a problem that the data in the mobile phone could not be output to the printer.

  In the prior art described in Patent Document 2, when outputting a plurality of data in a mobile phone, a plurality of print jobs are printed for each job unit, and one data is printed on one sheet of paper. As a result, there is a problem that printing paper is wasted because a lot of margins are left. Further, when using the output data, it is difficult to utilize the output data because the display format is not easy for the user to understand.

  Therefore, the present invention provides portable terminal data that can output data from a portable terminal without requiring connection of the portable terminal, and can obtain print data that can be easily used by a user, and can suppress waste of printing paper. An object is to provide a printing apparatus.

  The invention of claim 1 that achieves the above-described object includes a receiving unit that receives data transmitted from a portable terminal, a storage unit that stores the data received by the receiving unit, and a storage unit that stores the data stored in the storage unit. An information processing unit that selects from the above, outputs the data arranged in a predetermined display format, and a printer unit that prints data output from the information processing unit are provided.

  A second aspect of the present invention is the portable terminal data printing apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the operation unit is operated by a user and inputs a data output instruction including an output condition of the data to the information processing unit. It is provided.

  Invention of Claim 3 is the portable terminal data printing apparatus of Claim 1 or Claim 2, Comprising: While the said memory | storage part memorize | stores the said data for every some transmission origin, the said information processing part is The data relating to the designated sender is selectively output.

  Invention of Claim 4 is a portable terminal data printing apparatus of any one of Claims 1-3, Comprising: While providing the server which has the said receiving part, the said memory | storage part, and the said information processing part The printer unit is connected to the server via a communication network.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the data wirelessly transmitted from the mobile terminal is received by the receiving unit, the data can be output from the mobile terminal and printed by the printer unit without requiring connection of the mobile terminal. it can. Further, the data received by the receiving unit is stored in the storage unit, selected from the data by the information processing unit, arranged and output in a predetermined display format, and printed by the printer unit. Easy print data can be obtained, and margins can be reduced to reduce printing paper waste.

  According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 1, when the user inputs a data output instruction including a data output condition by operating the operation unit, the information processing unit responds to the output condition. The data is selected from the data, arranged in a predetermined display format, and output. As a result, print data that can be more easily utilized by the user can be obtained.

  According to the invention of claim 3, in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 1 or claim 2, the data received by the receiving unit is stored in the storage unit for each source, and the data relating to the designated source is stored. Since it is selectively output by the information processing unit, the user can obtain necessary output data by limiting to a desired transmission source.

  According to the invention of claim 4, in addition to the effect of the invention of any one of claims 1 to 3, the server includes a receiving unit, a storage unit and an information processing unit, and a printer unit via a communication network. Can be used as the server, and the cost can be reduced.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a portable terminal data printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating data transmission to the printing apparatus according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing procedure of the printing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile terminal data printing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment includes a receiving unit 3 that receives data from a mobile terminal, for example, a mobile phone 2, and a transmitting unit 4 that transmits data to the mobile phone 2. The information processing unit 5 connected to the reception unit 3 and the transmission unit 4 and performs various information processing, the operation unit 6 and the printer unit 7 connected to the information processing unit 5, the reception unit 3 and the information And a storage unit 8 connected to the processing unit 5. The storage unit 8 includes a first storage unit 8a for temporarily storing data, a second storage unit (DB) 8b having a database function, a third storage unit (RAM) 8c for storing a default display format, and 1 The fourth storage unit 8d stores the content of output data for a page.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phone 2 creates a data A including a header A1 including, for example, a caller (mobile phone number or email address) and a text A2 such as “Meeting tomorrow”. Send with date and time.

  The printing apparatus 1 extracts data for each item such as reception date / time, transmission date / time, transmission source, text, and attachment from the data A received by the reception unit 3, and transmits the data to the information storage area of the second storage unit 8b. Stored as saved data B for each (each header A1). Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the user inputs a data output instruction C including an output condition C1 of items (source, reception date, text, etc.) to be output from the stored data B via the operation unit 6. At the same time, an arbitrary display format is selected from the default display formats stored in the third storage unit 8c. As a result, the printer unit 7 prints the form D including the messages D2 to D4 for each reception date and time related to the selected transmission source D1.

  In the above embodiment, the portable terminal data is output and printed according to the processing procedures S1 to S10 shown in FIG. That is, the data A is created by the cellular phone 2 as the procedure S1, and the data A is wirelessly transmitted from the cellular phone 2 by e-mail as the procedure S2. Next, in step S3, the printing apparatus 1 receives the data A by the receiving unit 3, temporarily stores it in the first storage unit 8a as step S4, and in step S5, stores data for each necessary item from the data A. The data A is extracted and stored in the information storage area of the second storage unit 8b as saved data B for each caller. In step S6, the data A temporarily stored in the first storage unit 8a is discarded.

  Next, in step S7, when the user inputs a data output instruction C via the operation unit 6 and selects an arbitrary display format stored in the third storage unit 8c, 2. The stored data B stored in the storage unit 8b is searched based on the output condition C1, and in step S9, the searched data is applied to the selected display format and output. As a result, as step S10, the form D is printed by the printer unit 7.

  As described above, according to the present invention, since the data A wirelessly transmitted from the mobile phone 2 is received by the receiving unit 3, the data A can be received from the mobile phone 2 without requiring connection of the mobile phone 2. The data can be output and printed by the printer unit 7. Further, the data A received by the receiving unit 3 is stored in the storage unit 8, selected from the data A by the information processing unit 5, arranged in a predetermined display format and output, and printed by the printer unit 7. Therefore, print data that can be easily used by the user can be obtained, and an output result with few margins can be obtained, so that waste of printing paper can be suppressed.

  Further, according to the present invention, when the user operates the operation unit 6 of the printing apparatus 1 and inputs the data output instruction C including the data output condition C1, the information processing unit 5 determines the data according to the output condition C1. Since A is selected from A, arranged in a predetermined display format, and output, print data that can be more easily utilized by the user can be obtained.

  Further, according to the present invention, data such as the reception date / time, sender, text, and attachment is extracted for each item from the data A received by the receiver 3, and the information for each sender is stored in the information storage area of the second storage unit 8b. Stored as saved data B, searched by the information processing unit 5, and selectively outputs data relating to the designated sender, so that the user can obtain the necessary output data only for the desired sender Can do.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made.

  For example, in the above embodiment, when the user operates the operation unit 6 to output data, the data retrieved from the stored data B is applied to the selected display format and output, and the form D is output to the printer unit. 7 is printed, but when the retrieved data is applied to the selected display format and output, the data is temporarily stored in the fourth storage unit 8d, and one page of printing paper is stored. When data is accumulated, it can be automatically output and printed by the printer unit 7. In this case, waste of printing paper can be further suppressed.

  In the above-described embodiment, the user manually outputs the data by operating the operation unit 6. However, when a predetermined number of data is accumulated, the data can be automatically output and printed by the printer unit 7. . Further, in the event of an emergency, it is possible to instruct data output from the cellular phone 2 and print it by the printer unit 7, and then notify the cellular phone 2 from the transmitting unit 4 that the data output has been completed by e-mail. .

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a portable terminal data printing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, the same components as those shown in FIGS.

  As illustrated in FIG. 5, the mobile terminal data printing apparatus 1 </ b> A according to the present embodiment includes a server 10 having a reception unit 3, a transmission unit 4, a storage unit 8, and an information processing unit 5. A printer unit 7 is connected to the server 10 and an operation unit 6 is attached to the server 10.

  According to the present invention, the cost can be reduced by using an existing personal computer or the like as the server 10.

It is a block diagram which shows the printing apparatus of the portable terminal data which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure explaining the data transmission to the printing apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure explaining the data output of the printing apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing procedure of the printing apparatus according to the present embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the printing apparatus of the portable terminal data which concern on other embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1,1A ... Printing device of portable terminal data, 2 ... Mobile telephone (mobile terminal band), 3 ... Reception part, 5 ... Information processing part, 6 ... Operation part, 7 ... Printer part, 8 ... Memory | storage part, 8b ... 1st 2 storage unit (DB), 10 server, 11 communication network

Claims (4)

A receiver for receiving data wirelessly transmitted from the mobile terminal;
A storage unit for storing the data received by the receiving unit;
An information processing unit that selects from the data stored in the storage unit and arranges and outputs the data in a predetermined display format;
A portable terminal data printing apparatus comprising: a printer unit that prints data output from the information processing unit. The portable terminal data printing device according to claim 1,
A portable terminal data printing apparatus, comprising: an operation unit operated by a user to input a data output instruction including an output condition of the data to the information processing unit. A portable terminal data printing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein
The storage unit stores the data for each of a plurality of transmission sources,
The information processing unit selectively outputs the data relating to the designated sender, and is a portable terminal data printing apparatus. A portable terminal data printing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
A server having the receiving unit, the storage unit, and the information processing unit;
An apparatus for printing portable terminal data, wherein the printer unit is connected to the server via a communication network.

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