JP5899706B2 - Printing system, printing apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, printing method, and printing program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal device capable of displaying on a display means second display data for a portable terminal device converted from first display data for a personal computer, a printing system including the printing device, and the printing system. The present invention relates to a printing apparatus and a portable terminal apparatus, a printing method, and a printing program that are preferably used for the above.

  A display screen of a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone or an information terminal device is smaller than a display screen of a personal computer (hereinafter also referred to as a PC). For this reason, for example, when data such as a web page is displayed on the screen of a mobile terminal device, depending on the site, a page for PC and a page for mobile terminal device (hereinafter also referred to as mobile) are prepared. Acquires and displays the data of the portable page.

  There are also page conversion sites that divide a page or generate a page with reduced unnecessary items in order to display a page prepared for a PC on a mobile terminal device. Alternatively, there are some that hide the image for PC on the browser side of the mobile terminal device.

  However, when the web page of the corresponding site is printed by a printing apparatus, the paper size is usually printed in A4 size or Letter size in many cases. If screen data customized for a small portable screen is printed at that size, characters may become too large or may be enlarged and printed with a coarse image resolution.

  Therefore, conventionally, when printing a web page from a mobile terminal device, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the portable web page to be printed is sent to the printer or intermediate server, and the printer or intermediate server corresponds to the corresponding PC page. The method of acquiring and printing is taken.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8, the mobile terminal device 1 transmits a data acquisition request by specifying a URL to the web service 3 on the Internet (circle numeral 1), and acquires the data of the portable web page. (Circled number 2) and displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device 1. When the user wants to print the data displayed on the portable terminal device, the URL of the web page is transmitted from the portable terminal device 1 to the printing device (circle numeral 3). The printing apparatus transmits a data acquisition request to the web service 3 based on the received URL (circle numeral 4), and downloads and prints data of the PC web page (circle numeral 5).

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-133620 discloses a technique for transmitting web data that cannot be displayed on a mobile terminal device to a printing apparatus having a full browser function for printing. More specifically, when browsing web data, it includes a first web browsing means for a small screen and a second web browsing means for displaying on a screen larger than the screen of the portable device, and is acquired by two display means. The presence / absence of additional information is determined according to the combination of objects to be processed, and if there is additional information, a process of printing a display on a screen having a size larger than that of the mobile terminal device is performed.

JP 2007-272544 A

  However, conventional techniques including Patent Document 1 have a problem that if the volume of additional information is a web page, a large amount of unnecessary information is printed, resulting in waste for the user.

  As an example, the item “Japan” in Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, is given. When the user views the corresponding page with the mobile terminal device, the corresponding URL is “http: //en.m.wikipedia. On this page, some of the items are closed and data is partially displayed.

  When this is converted into a PC page "http: //en.wikipedia ..." and the page is printed on a printing device, all items are expanded and information on 49 pages of A4 paper is printed. End up.

  As described above, when a portable web page viewed on the mobile terminal device is converted into a PC web page and printed, a large amount of unnecessary information may be printed.

  Such a problem is not limited to a case where a portable web page is converted into a PC web page and printed, and a document file of a predetermined format composed of two types of data: portable data and PC data is stored. The same applies to the case where portable document data is downloaded from a document server and viewed on a portable terminal device, and the portable document data is converted into PC document data and printed on a printing device. There was a risk of occurrence.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a technical background, and converts portable display data viewed on a portable terminal device into display data for PC and prints it by a printing device. Provides a printing system capable of solving the problem of printing a large amount of unnecessary data, and a printing apparatus and a portable terminal device suitably used for the printing system, and further, a printing method and printing executed by the printing system It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing program for causing a computer of an apparatus to execute a printing process.

The above problem is solved by the following means.
(1) A printing system including a portable terminal device capable of displaying first display data for a portable terminal device on a display unit, and a printing device, wherein the portable terminal device is displayed on the display unit. Data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data and transmission for transmitting information related to the screen display area, which is the area actually displayed on the display means, of the first display data to the printing apparatus The printing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives data storage destination information and information related to a screen display area from the portable terminal device; and the first storage unit that receives the first storage unit based on the data storage destination information received by the receiving unit. Based on data acquisition means for acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to display data, and information on the screen display area received by the reception means, An area determination means for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired by the data acquisition means, and a print area for the second display data according to the determination result by the area determination means. A printing system comprising: a printing area determining means for determining; and a printing means for printing the printing area of the determined data.
(2) The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving unit of the printing apparatus is information on a character string displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal apparatus, and the area determining unit of the printing apparatus acquires the acquired second The preceding item 1 in which a character string in display data is matched with a character string included in information on a screen display area from the mobile terminal device, and an area having the highest similarity is determined as an area corresponding to the screen display area The printing system described in.
(3) The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving unit of the printing apparatus is content information included in the information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal apparatus, and the area determination unit of the printing apparatus acquires the acquired first information 2. The printing system according to item 1, wherein the display data of 2 is analyzed to determine that the area having the content information is an area corresponding to the screen display area.
(4) The printing apparatus further includes a transmission unit that transmits information related to the printing area determined by the printing area determination unit to the portable terminal device, and the printing unit of the printing apparatus is transmitted to the portable terminal device. 2. The printing system according to item 1, wherein printing is performed based on a reply from the portable terminal device to information relating to the print area.
(5) The printing system according to item 4, wherein the information regarding the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a page number including the print area.
(6) The printing system according to item 4 or 5, wherein the information regarding the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a preview image of a page including the print area.
(7) a display data conversion server that converts second display data for a personal computer into first display data for a portable terminal device; a portable terminal device that can display the first display data on a display unit; A printing system including a printing apparatus, wherein the display data conversion server includes a transmission unit that transmits first display data to a portable terminal device in response to a request from the portable terminal device. The data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data transmitted from the display data conversion server and displayed on the display means, and the actual display on the screen of the own device among the first display data A transmission unit configured to transmit information related to a screen display area, which is an area, to the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including data storage destination information and a screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device. Transfer means for transferring information on the display data conversion server to the display data conversion server, the display data conversion server further receiving data storage destination information transferred from the printing apparatus and information on the screen display area, and the reception means A data acquisition means for acquiring the second display data based on the data storage destination information received by the information processing apparatus, and a second display acquired by the data acquisition means based on the information regarding the screen display area received by the reception means. An area discriminating unit that discriminates an area corresponding to the screen display area from the data, and a print area determining unit that decides a print area of the second display data according to a discrimination result by the area discriminating unit; The printing apparatus prints a print area of data determined by a print area determination unit of the display data conversion server. Printing system which is characterized.
(8) data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means from a mobile terminal device provided with display means capable of displaying the first display data for the mobile terminal device; And receiving means for receiving information relating to a screen display area which is an area actually displayed on the display means among the first display data, and based on the data storage destination information received by the receiving means. Data acquisition means for acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the display data, and second display data acquired by the data acquisition means based on information relating to the screen display area received by the reception means An area determination unit for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area, and a print area of the second display data according to a determination result by the area determination unit. A printing apparatus for a constant print area determining means, and printing means for printing the print area of the determined data, comprising the.
(9) The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving means is information on a character string displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device, and the area determining means includes the acquired second display data 9. The printing apparatus according to item 8, wherein a character string and a character string included in information on a screen display area from the mobile terminal device are matched, and an area having the highest similarity is determined as an area corresponding to the screen display area. .
(10) The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving means is content information included in the information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device, and the area determining means uses the acquired second display data 9. The printing apparatus according to item 8, wherein an area having the content information is analyzed and determined as an area corresponding to the screen display area.
(11) The information processing apparatus further includes a transmission unit that transmits information related to the print area determined by the print area determination unit to the mobile terminal device. 11. The printing apparatus according to item 10, wherein printing is performed based on the reply.
(12) The printing apparatus according to (11), wherein the information related to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a page number including the print area.
(13) The printing apparatus according to (11) or (12), wherein the information related to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal apparatus is a preview image of a page including the print area.
(1 4 ) A printing method implemented in a printing system including a portable terminal device capable of displaying first display data for a portable terminal device on a display unit and a printing device, wherein the portable terminal device includes: Data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means, and information on a screen display area that is an area actually displayed on the display means among the first display data, A transmission step of transmitting to the printing apparatus is performed, and the printing apparatus receives a data storage destination information and a screen display area information from the portable terminal device, and a data storage destination information received in the reception step. In the data acquisition step of acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the first display data, and in the reception step Based on the received information about the screen display area, an area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired in the data acquisition step, and a determination result in the area determination step And a printing region determining step for determining a printing region for the second display data, and a printing step for printing the printing region for the determined data.
( 15 ) a display data conversion server that converts second display data for a personal computer into first display data for a portable terminal device, and a portable terminal device that can display the first display data on a display means A printing method implemented in a printing system including a printing apparatus, wherein the display data conversion server includes a transmission step of transmitting the first display data to the portable terminal apparatus in response to a request from the portable terminal apparatus. The portable terminal device implements data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data transmitted from the display data conversion server and displayed on the display means, and of the first display data, A transmission step of transmitting information related to the screen display area, which is an area actually displayed on the screen, to the printing apparatus is performed, and the printing apparatus is transmitted from the mobile terminal device A transfer step of transferring data storage destination information and information about the screen display area to the display data conversion server is performed, and the display data conversion server further receives the data storage destination information and the information about the screen display area transferred from the printing apparatus. A receiving step for receiving, a data acquiring step for acquiring the second display data based on the data storage location information received in the receiving step, and the data based on the information regarding the screen display area received in the receiving step. An area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired in the acquisition step, and a print area for the second display data is determined according to the determination result in the area determination step. A printing area determining step, and the printing apparatus performs the display data. A printing method for printing the print area of the data determined in the print area determination step of the data conversion server.
( 16 ) Data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means from the mobile terminal device provided with the display means capable of displaying the first display data for the mobile terminal device And receiving the information about the screen display area which is the area actually displayed on the display means in the first display data, and based on the data storage destination information received in the receiving step, a data acquisition stearyl-up to get the second display data for the personal computer corresponding to one of the display data, based on the information about the screen display region received at the receiving step, the second acquired in the data acquiring step An area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the display data of Depending on the print area determining step of determining a printing area of the second display data, print program for executing a printing step, to the computer of the printing apparatus for printing a printing area of the determined data.

  According to the invention described in (1), the data storage destination information indicating the storage destination of the first display data for the mobile terminal device displayed on the mobile terminal device, and the display means among the first display data When the information related to the screen display area that is actually displayed is transmitted from the mobile terminal device to the printing device, the printing device responds to the first display data based on the received data storage location information. The second display data for the personal computer to be acquired is acquired, and an area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the acquired second display data based on information on the screen display area from the mobile terminal device Then, the printing area of the second display data is determined according to the determination result, and the printing area of the determined data is printed.

  In other words, since the display data for PC can be printed centering on the area where the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device, the inconvenience that a lot of information unnecessary for the user is printed and is wasted is eliminated. Can do.

  According to the invention described in (2) above, matching is performed between the character string in the acquired second display data and the character string included in the information related to the screen display area from the mobile terminal device. Since a region with a high level is determined as a region corresponding to the screen display region, it is possible to determine with high accuracy.

  According to the invention described in (3) above, an area having content information included in the information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device corresponds to the screen display area by analyzing the acquired second display data. Therefore, it is possible to determine with high accuracy.

  According to the invention described in item (4) above, since the printing device performs printing based on a response from the portable terminal device to information relating to the print area transmitted to the portable terminal device, the intention of the user of the portable terminal device Can be printed.

  According to the invention described in item (5), the user can check the page number including the print area transmitted from the printing apparatus, and cause the printing apparatus to execute printing.

  According to the invention described in item (6), the user can check the preview image of the page including the print area transmitted from the printing apparatus, and cause the printing apparatus to execute printing.

  According to the invention described in item (7) above, the server determines the print area from the display data for the PC, centering on the area where the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device, and the determined print area is Since the printing apparatus performs printing, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that a large amount of information unnecessary for the user is printed and wasteful.

  According to the invention described in the preceding item (8), the display data for PC can be printed around the area where the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device, and a large amount of information unnecessary for the user is printed. A printing apparatus that can eliminate the inconvenience of generating waste can be obtained.

  According to the invention described in (9) above, the character string in the acquired second display data is matched with the character string included in the information related to the screen display area from the mobile terminal device, and the most similar degree is obtained. Since a region with a high level is determined as a region corresponding to the screen display region, it is possible to determine with high accuracy.

  According to the invention described in the above item (10), an area having content information included in information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device corresponds to the screen display area by analyzing the acquired second display data. Therefore, it is possible to determine with high accuracy.

  According to the invention described in item (11) above, since printing is performed based on a response from the portable terminal to the information regarding the print area transmitted to the portable terminal device, the intention of the user of the portable terminal device is confirmed and printed. It can be performed.

  According to the invention described in item (12), it is possible to print a page whose page number has been confirmed by the user.

  According to the invention described in item (13) above, it is possible to print a page on which a preview image has been confirmed by the user.

According to the invention described in (1 4 ) above, since the display data for PC can be printed around the area that the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device, a large amount of information unnecessary for the user is printed. This can eliminate the inconvenience of generating waste.

According to the invention described in the preceding paragraph (1 5 ), the intermediate processing server determines the printing area from the display data for PC, centering on the area that the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device, and is determined. Since the printing apparatus prints the print area, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that a large amount of information unnecessary for the user is printed and wasteful.

According to the invention described in the preceding item ( 16 ), the computer of the printing apparatus is caused to execute the process of printing the display data for the PC around the area where the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device. Can do.

1 is a configuration diagram of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of a portable terminal device. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the printing apparatus. (A) is a flowchart showing the operation of the portable terminal device when printing data for PC corresponding to the portable web page displayed on the portable terminal device is printed by the printing device, (B) is a flowchart showing the operation of the printing device. It is. It is a block diagram of the printing system which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. FIG. 5A is a flowchart showing the operation of the mobile terminal device when printing data for PC corresponding to the mobile web page displayed on the mobile terminal device in the embodiment of FIG. 5, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the printing apparatus. It is a block diagram of the printing system which concerns on further another embodiment of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating operation | movement of the conventional printing system.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The printing system includes a portable terminal device 1 and a printing device 2, and each of these devices can be connected to a web service (web server) 3 on the Internet, and the portable terminal device 1 and the printing device 2. Are also connected through a network.

  The mobile terminal device 1 includes a mobile phone, a mobile information terminal, and the like, and is carried and carried by a user. The functional configuration of the mobile terminal device 1 is shown in the block diagram of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal device 1 includes a CPU 11, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a storage unit 14, a display unit 15, a network interface unit (network I / F unit) 16, and the like.

  The CPU 11 comprehensively controls the entire mobile terminal device 1 by executing an operation program stored in the ROM 12. In particular, in this embodiment, data is transmitted and received between the web service 3 and the printing apparatus 2 via the network interface unit 16, and details will be described later.

  The ROM 12 is a storage medium that stores an operation program to be executed by the CPU 11 and other data.

  The RAM 13 is a storage medium that provides a work area when the CPU 11 operates according to the operation program.

  The storage unit 14 includes a storage medium such as a hard disk, and stores various data and software such as a browser.

  The display unit 15 displays various screens, data, messages, and the like, and is formed by, for example, a liquid crystal display device. Further, in this embodiment, the display unit 15 is formed by a touch panel and also has a function as the input operation unit 151, and the user can perform various inputs and operation instructions by touching the screen. It has been made.

  The network interface unit (network I / F unit) 16 functions as a communication unit that transmits and receives data to and from the web service 3 and the printing apparatus 2 under the control of the CPU 11. In addition, although illustration was abbreviate | omitted, the portable terminal device 1 is also provided with the telephone function.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the printing apparatus 2. In this embodiment, an MFP (Multi Function Peripherals), which is a multifunction digital multi-function peripheral having a plurality of functions such as a copy function, a printer function, a scan function, and a facsimile function, is used as the printing apparatus 2. A ROM 22, a RAM 23, a scanner unit 24, a storage unit 25, a printer unit 26, an operation panel 27, a network controller (N1C) 28, and the like are provided.

  The CPU 21 controls the entire printing apparatus 2 and controls basic functions such as a copy function, a printer function, a scan function, and a facsimile function. Further, based on the information transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, operations such as downloading data from the web service 3 and determining a print area are executed, details of which will be described later.

  The ROM 22 is a memory that stores an operation program of the CPU 21 and the like.

  The RAM 23 is a memory that provides a work area when the CPU 21 operates based on an operation program.

  The scanner unit 24 is a reading unit that reads an image of a document placed on a document table (not shown) and outputs image data.

  The storage unit 25 is configured by a non-volatile storage device such as a hard disk drive (HDD), for example. Image data of a document read by the scanner unit 24, data transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, a browser, or the like Software is stored.

  The printer unit 26 prints image data of a document read by the scanner unit 24, a predetermined print area of a PC web page downloaded from the web service 3, and the like according to an instructed mode.

  The operation panel 27 is used for various input operations and the like. The operation panel 27 includes a display unit 27a including a touch panel type liquid crystal for displaying a message, an operation screen, and the like, and hard keys such as a numeric keypad, a start key, and a stop key. The key input unit 27b is provided.

  The network controller 28 transmits and receives data by controlling communication with the mobile terminal device 1 and the web service 3 on the network.

  Next, in the printing system shown in FIG. 1, a procedure for printing the PC web page in the area corresponding to the area of the portable web page displayed on the mobile terminal device 1 with the printing device 2 will be described. .

  Based on the user's operation, the CPU 11 of the portable terminal device 1 designates a predetermined URL to the web service 3 on the Internet and transmits a data acquisition request (circle numeral 1) to acquire the data of the portable web page. (Circle number 2) is displayed on the display unit 15.

  When the user wants to print PC data corresponding to the data displayed on the display unit 15 of the mobile terminal device 1, the user operates the display operation unit 151 of the mobile terminal device 1 to issue a print instruction. The CPU 11 of the terminal device 1 is the URL that is the storage destination information of the portable web page displayed on the display unit 15 and the region that is actually displayed on the display unit 15 (the region that the user is browsing). Information on the screen display area is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 (circled number 3). The URL of the portable web page includes information on the URL of the PC web page.

  The CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 converts the received URL into the URL of the PC web page, transmits the request to the web service 3 by specifying the URL (circled number 4), and downloads the data of the PC web page. (Circle number 5). And based on the information regarding the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, the area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the data of the downloaded PC web page (circle numeral 6). From the downloaded data, a print area is determined and printing is executed via the printer unit 26 (circle numeral 7).

  Note that the conversion of the URL of the portable web page to the URL of the PC web page may not be performed by the printing apparatus 2 but may be performed on the web service 3 side.

  In the above description, the determination process of the area corresponding to the screen display area in the downloaded PC web page performed by the printing apparatus 2 is specifically performed as follows, for example.

  That is, the CPU 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 extracts a character string from the data displayed on the screen of the display unit 15 and transmits information on the character string to the printing device 2 as information related to the screen display area. For example, if the area displayed on the portable terminal device 1 as portable data is the item “geography / terrain” in the column “Japan” in Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, 8 in the portable data A display character string indicated on the page, for example, “From the island of geography / terrain 6852...” Is extracted and transmitted to the printing apparatus 2.

  The printing device 2 matches the character string in the downloaded PC web page with the character string transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1 as information relating to the screen display area, and determines the region with the highest similarity as the PC. And an area corresponding to the screen display area in the web page for use.

  In this way, the character string in the acquired PC web page is matched with the character string as information regarding the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, and the area with the highest similarity is the screen display area. Therefore, it is possible to determine with high accuracy.

  As another determination method, there is a method of using content information being displayed on the mobile terminal device 1.

  That is, the CPU 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 acquires content information (for example, an image file name and a tag name) currently displayed on the display unit 15 and uses the acquired content information as information related to the screen display area. It transmits to the printing apparatus 2. For example, when the area displayed on the portable terminal device 1 as a portable web page is an item “geography / terrain” in the column “Japan” in Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia, A tag on the eighth page, for example, a tag “geography / terrain” is transmitted. Note that both the content information and the display character string described above may be transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 as information relating to the screen display area.

  The printing apparatus 2 analyzes and extracts where the received content information from the mobile terminal apparatus 1 is included in the downloaded PC web page, and determines the extracted area as an area corresponding to the screen display area. .

  As described above, the obtained PC web page data is analyzed, and the area having the content information as the information related to the screen display area is determined as the area corresponding to the screen display area. It becomes possible.

  The print area determined in the print area determination process may be a plurality of pages including an area corresponding to the screen display area, or a specified number of pages may be printed starting from the corresponding area. For example, when printing is performed using a printing device installed in a convenience store, etc., when a web page is displayed on the mobile terminal device 1 and printing is designated, one page including the corresponding area is printed as a standard. When paying, it is good also as a structure by which the following page is printed.

  Further, all chapters including the corresponding area may be printed. For example, the HTML of the web page may be analyzed to search for a tag including the corresponding area, and all the areas in the range surrounded by the tag may be extracted and printed.

  Further, the layout may be changed so that the corresponding area is the center of the page or the top of the page.

  As described above, in this embodiment, since the PC web page can be printed centering on the area where the user is actually browsing with the mobile terminal device 1, even if the data amount of the PC web page is large, the user Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that a large amount of information unnecessary for printing is wasted.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the operation of the mobile terminal device 1 when the printing device 2 prints the PC data corresponding to the mobile web page displayed on the mobile terminal device 1 is shown in FIG. The flowchart shows the operation of the printing apparatus 2 in the flowchart of FIG. These operations are executed by the CPU 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 and the CPU 21 of the printing device 2 operating according to operation programs stored in the ROM 12, the ROM 22, and the like, respectively.

  In step S01, the URL of the portable web page to be browsed is designated and a data acquisition request is transmitted to the web service 3 via the network interface unit 16, and the corresponding portable web page is obtained from the web service 3 in step S02. And displayed on the display unit 15.

  In step S03, a print instruction based on a user operation is received. In step S04, the URL of the portable web page displayed on the display unit 15 and the screen display area that is the area actually displayed on the display unit 15 are related. Information is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2.

  On the other hand, the CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 receives information about the URL and the screen display area from the mobile terminal apparatus 1 via the network controller 28 in step S11. Next, in step S12, the received URL is converted into the URL of the PC web page, and the URL is designated and a data acquisition request is transmitted to the web service. Then, in step S13, the PC web page is downloaded.

  Next, in step S14, an area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the downloaded PC web page based on the information regarding the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, and in step S15, the determination is made. A print area is determined from the downloaded data based on the result, and the determined print area is printed via the printer unit 26 in step S16.

  FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a printing system according to another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, after the printing apparatus 2 determines the printing area, the printing apparatus 2 transmits information about the determined printing area to the mobile terminal apparatus 1, and prints the printing area based on a response from the mobile terminal apparatus 1. Is.

  In the embodiment of FIG. 5, the configurations of the mobile terminal device 1 and the printing device 2 are the same as those shown in FIGS.

  In the printing system shown in FIG. 5, a procedure when the printing apparatus 2 prints the PC web page in the area corresponding to the area of the portable web page displayed on the portable terminal apparatus 1 will be described.

  Based on the user's operation, the CPU 11 of the portable terminal device 1 designates a predetermined URL to the web service 3 on the Internet and transmits a data acquisition request (circle numeral 1) to acquire the data of the portable web page. (Circle number 2) is displayed on the display unit 15.

  When the user wants to print PC data corresponding to the data displayed on the display unit 15 of the mobile terminal device 1, the user operates the display operation unit 151 of the mobile terminal device 1 to issue a print instruction. The CPU 11 of the terminal device 1 is the URL that is the storage destination information of the portable web page displayed on the display unit 15 and the region that is actually displayed on the display unit 15 (the region that the user is browsing). Information on the screen display area is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 (circled number 3).

  The CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 converts the received URL into the URL of the PC web page. The CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 converts the received URL into the URL of the PC web page and designates the URL to specify the web service 3. A request is sent to (circle number 4), and the data of the web page for PC is downloaded (circle number 5). And based on the information regarding the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, the area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the data of the downloaded PC web page (circle numeral 6). The print area is determined from the downloaded data based on (circle numeral 7).

  The printing apparatus 2 transmits information related to the determined printing area to the mobile terminal apparatus 1 (circle numeral 8). Examples of the information related to the determined print area include a page number including the print area, a preview image of the page including the print area, and the like.

  The mobile terminal device 1 that has received this information displays the information on the display unit 15. The user confirms the print area from the displayed information, determines whether to print all pages or only the corresponding page, and transmits a print instruction to the printing apparatus 2 (circle numeral 9).

  The printing apparatus 1 receives a print instruction from the mobile terminal apparatus, and performs printing based on the print instruction (round numeral 10).

  As described above, in this embodiment, the printing apparatus 2 performs printing based on a reply from the portable terminal apparatus 1 with respect to the information about the print area transmitted to the portable terminal apparatus 1, so that the user's intention of the portable terminal apparatus 1 is confirmed. Can be printed.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the operation of the portable terminal device 1 when the printing device 2 prints the PC data corresponding to the portable web page displayed on the portable terminal device 1 is shown in FIG. The operation of the printing apparatus 2 is shown in FIG. These operations are executed by the CPU 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 and the CPU 21 of the printing device 2 operating according to operation programs stored in the ROM 12 and the ROM 22, respectively.

  In step S21, the URL of the portable web page to be browsed is specified and a data acquisition request is transmitted to the web service 3 via the network interface unit 16, and the corresponding portable web page is obtained from the web service 3 in step S22. And displayed on the display unit 15.

  In step S23, a print instruction based on a user operation is received. In step S24, the URL of the portable web page displayed on the display unit 15 and the screen display area that is the area actually displayed on the display unit 15 are related. After transmitting the information to the printing apparatus 2, in step S25, it waits for the printing apparatus 2 to transmit information related to the print area.

  On the other hand, the CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 receives the URL and information related to the screen display area from the mobile terminal apparatus 1 via the network controller 28 in step S31. Next, in step S32, the received URL is converted into the URL of the PC web page, and after specifying the URL and transmitting a data acquisition request to the web service, the data of the PC web page is downloaded in step S33. To do.

  Next, in step S34, an area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the downloaded PC web page based on the information about the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1, and in step S35, the determination is made. Based on the result, the print area is determined from the downloaded data.

  Next, in step S36, information related to the determined print area is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 1, and then a print instruction from the mobile terminal device 1 is waited in step S37.

  When the portable terminal device 1 receives the information regarding the print area from the printing device 2 (YES in step S25), the information is displayed on the display unit 15 in step S26, and waits for a print instruction operation to be performed in step S27. When the print instruction operation is performed (YES in step S27), the print instruction is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 in step S28.

  When the printing apparatus 2 receives the print instruction from the mobile terminal apparatus 1 (YES in step S37), the printing apparatus 2 executes printing via the printer unit 26 in step S38.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, the conversion of the URL of the portable web page to the URL of the PC web page may be performed on the web service 3 side, and the content of the information related to the display area, etc. This is the same as the case of the embodiment shown in FIG.

  In the above embodiment, it has been described that the mobile web page and the PC web page are prepared on the web service 3 side, but there is an intermediate processing server for converting the PC web page into the mobile web page. If the mobile terminal device 1 has accessed the intermediate server to acquire the data of the mobile web page, the printing device 2 transmits the URL of the mobile web page received from the mobile terminal device 1 to the intermediate server. The PC web page data may be acquired via the intermediate processing server.

  Further, when there is an intermediate processing server that converts the PC web page as described above into a portable web page, this intermediate processing server is actually displayed on the mobile terminal device 1 in the PC web page. The print area may be determined by determining the area corresponding to the display area.

  The configuration of the printing system in this case is shown in FIG.

  This printing system includes a mobile terminal device 1, a printing device 2, and an intermediate server 4. The portable terminal device 1 and the printing device 2 have the same configuration as that shown in FIG. The intermediate server 4 is configured by a personal computer.

  In the printing system of FIG. 7, based on the user's operation, the CPU 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 transmits a data acquisition request specifying the URL of the mobile web page to the intermediate server 4 (circle numeral 1). The intermediate server 4 converts the received URL into the URL of the PC web page, sends the request to the web service 3 by specifying the URL (circled number 2), and after downloading the PC web page from the web service 3 (Circle numeral 3), a portable web page (portable screen) is generated and transferred to the portable terminal device 1 (circle numeral 4). The portable terminal device 1 displays the transferred portable web page on the display unit 15 (circle numeral 5).

  When the user wants to print PC data corresponding to the data displayed on the display unit 15 of the mobile terminal device 1, the user operates the display operation unit 151 of the mobile terminal device 1 to issue a print instruction. The CPU 11 of the terminal device 1 is the URL that is the storage destination information of the portable web page displayed on the display unit 15 and the region that is actually displayed on the display unit 15 (the region that the user is browsing). Information about the screen display area is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 (circle numeral 6).

  The CPU 21 of the printing apparatus 2 transfers the received URL and information on the screen display area to the intermediate processing server 4 (circle numeral 7). This URL includes information such as the URL of the PC website that is the source of the displayed page, the presence / absence of image display, and the page number of the divided display page. Yes.

  The intermediate processing server 4 converts the received URL into the URL of the PC web page, transmits a data acquisition request to the web service 3 (circle numeral 8), and downloads the PC web page from the web service 3 (circle). Number 9). Then, based on the information about the screen display area transmitted from the printing apparatus 2, an area corresponding to the screen display area is determined from the downloaded PC web pages (circle numeral 10), and based on the determination result. A print area is determined (circle numeral 11), and data of the determined print area is transmitted to the printing apparatus 2 (circle numeral 12).

  The printing apparatus 2 receives the print area data from the intermediate server 4 and prints the data via the printer unit 26 (circle numeral 13).

  The printing apparatus 2 may be configured to transmit information related to the print area determined by the intermediate server 4 to the mobile terminal apparatus 1 and perform printing after waiting for a print instruction from the mobile terminal apparatus 1.

  Further, the contents of information related to the display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device 1 to the printing device 2 and transferred to the intermediate server 4 are the same as those in the embodiment shown in FIG.

  According to this embodiment, the intermediate server 4 determines the print area from the PC web page, centering on the area that the user is actually browsing on the mobile terminal device 1, and the determined print area is the print device 2. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that a large amount of information unnecessary for the user is printed and wasteful.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment. For example, a case has been described in which a portable web page is converted into a PC web page and printed. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a predetermined format composed of two types of data: portable data and PC data. Download portable document data from the document server storing the document file of the document and browse it on the portable terminal device, and convert the portable document data into document data for PC and print it on the printing device In such a case, the present invention may be applied.

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Claims (16)

A portable terminal device capable of displaying first display data for a portable terminal device on a display means, and a printing system comprising a printing device,
The portable terminal device is data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means, and an area actually displayed on the display means among the first display data. Comprising transmission means for transmitting information relating to the screen display area to the printing apparatus;
The printing apparatus includes:
Receiving means for receiving data storage location information and information on the screen display area from the mobile terminal device;
Data acquisition means for acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the first display data based on the data storage destination information received by the reception means;
An area discriminating unit for discriminating an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired by the data acquiring unit based on the information on the screen display area received by the receiving unit;
A print area determining means for determining a print area of the second display data in accordance with a determination result by the area determining means;
Printing means for printing the printing area of the determined data;
A printing system comprising: The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving unit of the printing apparatus is information on the character string displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device,
The area discriminating means of the printing device takes the matching between the character string in the acquired second display data and the character string included in the information on the screen display area from the mobile terminal device, and has the highest similarity. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein an area corresponding to the screen display area is determined. The information related to the screen display area received by the receiving unit of the printing apparatus is content information included in the information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal apparatus.
2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the area determination unit of the printing apparatus analyzes the acquired second display data and determines an area having the content information as an area corresponding to the screen display area. The printing apparatus further includes transmission means for transmitting information related to the print area determined by the print area determination means to the portable terminal device,
The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the printing unit of the printing apparatus performs printing based on a reply from the portable terminal device with respect to the information regarding the print area transmitted to the portable terminal device.   The printing system according to claim 4, wherein the information relating to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a page number including the print area.   6. The printing system according to claim 4, wherein the information related to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a preview image of a page including the print area. A display data conversion server for converting second display data for a personal computer into first display data for a portable terminal device; a portable terminal device capable of displaying the first display data on a display; and a printing device. A printing system comprising:
The display data conversion server includes transmission means for transmitting the first display data to the mobile terminal device in response to a request from the mobile terminal device,
The portable terminal device actually displays data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data transmitted from the display data conversion server and displayed on the display means, and the screen of the device itself among the first display data. Comprising a transmission means for transmitting information relating to a screen display area, which is an area displayed on the printing apparatus, to the printing apparatus;
The printing apparatus includes a transfer unit that transfers data storage destination information and information related to a screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device to the display data conversion server,
The display data conversion server further includes:
Receiving means for receiving data storage destination information transferred from the printing apparatus and information on the screen display area;
Data acquisition means for acquiring the second display data based on the data storage destination information received by the reception means;
An area discriminating unit for discriminating an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired by the data acquiring unit based on the information on the screen display area received by the receiving unit;
A print area determining means for determining a print area of the second display data in accordance with a determination result by the area determining means;
With
The printing system prints a print area of data determined by a print area determination unit of the display data conversion server. Data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means from a mobile terminal device provided with display means capable of displaying the first display data for the mobile terminal device; Receiving means for receiving information relating to a screen display area which is an area actually displayed on the display means among the display data of one;
Data acquisition means for acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the first display data based on the data storage destination information received by the reception means;
An area discriminating unit for discriminating an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired by the data acquiring unit based on the information on the screen display area received by the receiving unit;
A print area determining means for determining a print area of the second display data in accordance with a determination result by the area determining means;
Printing means for printing the printing area of the determined data;
A printing apparatus comprising: The information regarding the screen display area received by the receiving means is information on a character string displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device,
The area discriminating means matches the character string in the acquired second display data with the character string included in the information related to the screen display area from the mobile terminal device, and selects the area with the highest similarity as the screen. The printing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the printing apparatus determines that the area corresponds to a display area. The information regarding the screen display area received by the receiving means is content information included in information displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device,
The printing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the area determination unit analyzes the acquired second display data and determines an area having the content information as an area corresponding to the screen display area. Further comprising transmission means for transmitting information related to the print area determined by the print area determination means to the mobile terminal device;
The printing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the printing unit performs printing based on a reply from the portable terminal with respect to the information regarding the print area transmitted to the portable terminal apparatus.   The printing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the information related to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal device is a page number including the print area.   The printing apparatus according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the information related to the print area transmitted to the mobile terminal apparatus is a preview image of a page including the print area. A portable terminal device capable of displaying first display data for a portable terminal device on a display means, and a printing method implemented by a printing system including a printing device,
The portable terminal device is data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means, and an area actually displayed on the display means among the first display data. Performing a transmission step of transmitting information about the screen display area to the printing apparatus;
The printing apparatus includes:
  A reception step of receiving data storage destination information and information on the screen display area from the mobile terminal device;
A data acquisition step of acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the first display data based on the data storage destination information received in the reception step;
An area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired in the data acquisition step based on information on the screen display area received in the reception step;
A print area determining step for determining a print area of the second display data according to the determination result in the area determining step;
A printing step for printing a printing area of the determined data;
The printing method characterized by implementing. A display data conversion server for converting second display data for a personal computer into first display data for a portable terminal device; a portable terminal device capable of displaying the first display data on a display; and a printing device. A printing method implemented by a printing system provided,
The display data conversion server performs a transmission step of transmitting the first display data to the mobile terminal device in response to a request from the mobile terminal device,
The portable terminal device actually displays data storage location information indicating the storage location of the first display data transmitted from the display data conversion server and displayed on the display means, and the screen of the device itself among the first display data. Performing a transmission step of transmitting information related to the screen display area, which is an area displayed on the printer, to the printing apparatus;
The printing apparatus performs a transfer step of transferring data storage destination information and information related to the screen display area transmitted from the mobile terminal device to the display data conversion server,
The display data conversion server further includes:
  A receiving step for receiving data storage destination information and information on the screen display area transferred from the printing device;
A data acquisition step of acquiring the second display data based on the data storage destination information received in the reception step;
An area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired in the data acquisition step based on information on the screen display area received in the reception step;
A print area determining step for determining a print area of the second display data according to the determination result in the area determining step;
Carried out
The printing apparatus prints a print area of data determined in a print area determination step of the display data conversion server. Data storage location information indicating a storage location of the first display data displayed on the display means from a mobile terminal device provided with display means capable of displaying the first display data for the mobile terminal device; A receiving step of receiving information relating to a screen display area which is an area actually displayed on the display means among the display data of 1;
A data acquisition step of acquiring second display data for a personal computer corresponding to the first display data based on the data storage destination information received in the reception step;
An area determination step for determining an area corresponding to the screen display area from the second display data acquired in the data acquisition step based on information on the screen display area received in the reception step;
A print area determining step for determining a print area of the second display data according to the determination result in the area determining step;
A printing step for printing the printing area of the determined data;
A printing program for causing a computer of a printing apparatus to execute.

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