KR100694082B1 - Method of printing text data generated in portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of directly connecting to a portable terminal such as a mobile phone and printing data input therefrom. The method includes receiving data to be printed from a portable terminal; Checking whether the input data is character data; In the case of text data, providing the user with information about printable print sheets; Receiving one of the print sheets from the user; And printing the character data on the selected printing paper.

According to the present invention, when a user wants to print text data such as SMS (Short Massage Service) text message data from a portable terminal such as a mobile phone directly connected to a printing apparatus, the user can select and print a printing paper, It is possible to reduce the waste of printing costs incurred by using expensive printing paper for printing simple text data.

Description

{Method of printing text data generated in portable terminal}

1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a printing apparatus according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of receiving text data from a portable terminal and printing the same according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method of printing on a printing sheet selected from the user of FIG. 2.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for directly connecting to a portable terminal such as a mobile phone and printing data input from the portable terminal. In particular, when printing of text data such as SMS (Short Massage Service) text message data is requested, The present invention relates to a printing method that allows a user to select and print a printing paper.

A printing apparatus generally has a function of converting a document created by an application through an application program or an image photographed by a user using a digital camera or the like into encoded data and outputting the data to the media in a form that can be viewed by the user.

With the development of a wide range of digital cameras, which produce digital image data that can be easily edited and photographed in a simple way, print devices that can print images taken with a digital camera at high quality at home It is commercialized a lot. As a general method of printing image data generated by a digital camera, the image data is stored in a personal computer (PC) from a digital camera, and the image data is processed in a format that can be printed on the PC, and then Print by printing to the connected printer.

Recently, in accordance with a user's request to simply print image data generated by a digital camera without using a PC, a photo printer is directly connected to the digital camera and prints image data input from the digital camera. Are coming out. As a result, any image acquisition device such as a portable photo printer and a digital camera can be used to capture and print a desired image regardless of a place or time.

In addition, as the spread of portable terminals such as mobile phones having an imaging function increases, printing apparatuses that are directly connected to the portable terminal and receive and print image data generated by the portable terminal have been commercialized. The printing apparatus connected to the portable terminal may receive and print not only photograph data photographed by the portable terminal, but also text data such as a text message created by a user using the portable terminal.

Therefore, there is a need to print data using a printing paper corresponding thereto according to the characteristics of data to be received from a portable terminal or the like.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to print the image data from a portable terminal such as a mobile phone connected directly without a PC or the like, in the case of text data printing printing method that allows the user to select the printing paper to print To provide.

The printing method according to the present invention for solving the above technical problem, the step of receiving data to be printed from the portable terminal; Checking whether the input data is character data; If the data is text data, providing a user with information about printable print sheets; Receiving one of the print sheets from a user; And printing the character data on the selected printing paper.

The text data is preferably SMS (Short Massage Service) text message data generated by the portable terminal.

Preferably, the printing step comprises the steps of: determining whether the print paper mounted on the printing device and the selected print paper are the same; If the two printing sheets are the same as the result of the determination, printing the text data on the loaded printing sheet; And when the two printing papers are not the same, the printer waits for printing until the selected printing paper is mounted in the printing apparatus, and then selects the text data after the selected printing paper is mounted in the printing apparatus. Printing on paper.

The printing method may further include providing information on a print request of an SMS text message to the user when the data is SMS text message data.

Preferably, the printing method comprises the steps of determining whether the input data is printable from the printing apparatus; And if it is impossible to print, providing the user with information that the input data is non-printable data.

The printing method may be embodied as a computer-readable recording medium that records a program for execution on a computer.

Hereinafter, a method of printing text data input from a portable terminal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a printing device having a color effect function according to the present invention, the printing device shown in the interface unit 120, the control unit 130, the printing unit 140, the display unit 150 ) And the user input unit 160. The operation of the printing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described in conjunction with the flowchart showing the printing method according to the present invention shown in FIG.

When the user selects data to be printed by using a key input unit (not shown) of the portable terminal 100 and requests printing, the portable terminal 100 is connected to a preset protocol between the printing devices 110. Accordingly, the data is output to the printing apparatus 110. The interface unit 120 receives data to be printed from the portable terminal 100 (step 200).

The portable terminal 100 is preferably a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA).

The portable terminal 100 and the interface unit 120 included in the printing apparatus transmit and receive data by using a universal serial bus (USB), a near infrared data communication method, a removable memory card storing data, or the like. It is preferable to use other wireless data communication methods.

In case of using the USB, PictBridge technology, which is a standard technology defined by the Japan Camera Imaging Industry Association (CIPA), can be used.In the case of the near-infrared communication method, IrDA (Infrared Data Association) technology can be used. Can be. In addition, when using a removable memory card, it is possible to use the DPOF (Digital Printer Order Format) standard technology, and other wireless communication methods are to transmit and receive data using Bluetooth using BPP (Basic Printing Profile) technology. desirable.

The controller 130 checks whether the data input from the portable terminal 100 is data of a format printable by the printing apparatus 110 (operation 210). When the input data is a non-printable data format, the controller 130 generates a signal indicating that the input data is a non-printable format, and the display unit 150 receiving the signal indicates that the input data is a non-printable format. The information is displayed (step 220).

When printable data is input, the controller 130 checks whether the print requested data is SMS text message data (step 230). As a result of the check, if the input data is not the character data, the controller 130 generates a print command signal and outputs it to the print unit 140, and the print unit 140 receives the print command signal and The input data is printed on printing paper mounted on the printing apparatus (step 240).

If the print request data is SMS text message data, the display unit 150 displays information indicating that printing of the SMS text message is requested under the control of the controller 130 (step 250). Information on sheets capable of printing message data is displayed (step 260).

Preferably, the printable paper includes a general print paper and a photo paper for photo output.

The user input unit 160 receives a print sheet to be printed from among the displayed print sheets, and outputs information on the selected print sheet to the controller 130 (step 270). The printing unit 140 receives information on the selected printing paper and data to be printed from the control unit 130 and prints the input data on the selected printing paper (step 280).

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of step 280 of FIG. The controller 130 checks the printing paper currently mounted on the printing apparatus 110 and checks whether the printing paper currently selected and the printing paper selected from the user are the same (step 300). The control unit 130 is provided with a sensor (not shown) that can distinguish whether the printing paper is mounted and the type of the printing paper, it is preferable to perform the step 300 using the sensor (not shown).

As a result of the check, when the printing paper selected by the user is mounted, the printing unit 140 prints data input to the mounted printing paper (step 310).

As a result of the check, when the user does not have the selected print sheet, the display unit 150 displays a request to mount the selected print sheet on the printing apparatus under the control of the controller 130 (step 320). ).

After performing the operation 320, the controller 130 continuously checks whether the selected printing paper is mounted in the printing apparatus (step 300), and waits for printing until the selected printing paper is mounted. To control.

When it is confirmed that the selected print sheet is mounted by the user, the controller 130 generates a print command signal and outputs the print command signal to the print unit 140 together with the data to be printed, and the print unit 140 The print command signal is received and the data to be printed is printed on the loaded printing paper (step 310).

The present invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all types of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and the like, which are also implemented in the form of carrier waves (for example, transmission over the Internet). Include. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can make various changes without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be appreciated that modifications or variations may be made. Accordingly, modifications to future embodiments of the present invention will not depart from the technology of the present invention.

As described above, according to the printing method of the present invention, when a user wants to print text data such as SMS (Short Massage Service) text message data from a portable terminal such as a mobile phone directly connected to a printing apparatus, the user prints the printing paper. By making it possible to select and print, it is possible to reduce waste of printing costs incurred by using expensive printing paper for printing simple character data.

Claims (5)

In the method of receiving data from a portable terminal and printing, Receiving data to be printed from the portable terminal; Checking whether the input data is character data; If the data is text data, providing a user with information about printable print sheets; Receiving one of the print sheets from a user; And And printing the text data on the selected printing paper. The method of claim 1, wherein the character data is And a short massage service (SMS) text message data generated by the portable terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the printing step Determining whether the printing paper mounted on the printing device and the selected printing paper are the same; If the two printing sheets are the same as the result of the determination, printing the text data on the loaded printing sheet; And If the two printing papers are not the same as the result of the determination, the printer waits for printing until the selected printing paper is mounted in the printing apparatus, and then the character data is stored in the selected paper after the selected printing paper is mounted in the printing apparatus. And printing on the printing method. The method of claim 1, And if the data is SMS text message data, providing the user with information about a print request of the SMS text message. The method of claim 1, Determining whether the input data is printable by the printing apparatus; And And if printing is not possible, providing information to the user that the data input is non-printable data.

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