WO2022185986A1 - 画像形成システムおよび画像形成装置 - Google Patents

画像形成システムおよび画像形成装置 Download PDF

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WO2022185986A1
WO2022185986A1 PCT/JP2022/007108 JP2022007108W WO2022185986A1 WO 2022185986 A1 WO2022185986 A1 WO 2022185986A1 JP 2022007108 W JP2022007108 W JP 2022007108W WO 2022185986 A1 WO2022185986 A1 WO 2022185986A1
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亮祐 加藤
経介 福島
重中 金光
康史 塚本
明彦 伊ヶ崎
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
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    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/12—Digital output to print unit, e.g. line printer, chain printer
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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  • the present invention relates to an image forming system and an image forming apparatus.
  • an image forming apparatus includes a beacon receiver, which receives a beacon signal transmitted from a user's mobile terminal device, and customizes for the user corresponding to identification information in the beacon signal.
  • the individual standby screen displayed is displayed (see Patent Document 1, for example).
  • the beacon allows the image forming apparatus to detect a user approaching the image forming apparatus, but other users can confirm whether or not there is a user approaching the image forming apparatus. It is difficult to
  • the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an image forming system that prevents other users from coming to the installation location of an image forming apparatus when a user is in the vicinity of the installation location of the image forming apparatus. and an image forming apparatus.
  • An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that can be used by a plurality of users, and a beacon transmitter for each of the plurality of users.
  • the image forming apparatus includes (a) a beacon receiver for receiving a beacon signal from the beacon transmitter existing in a surrounding area of a predetermined range, and (b) the beacon signal received by the beacon receiver. (c) upon receiving a request for confirmation of the surrounding area from the user terminal device, transmitting a response indicating at least the presence or absence of the user existing in the surrounding area to the user terminal device;
  • An image forming apparatus includes a beacon receiver for receiving a beacon signal from a beacon transmitter carried by a user existing in a surrounding area of a predetermined range; (a) the beacon signal received by the beacon receiver; (b) upon receiving a surrounding confirmation request from a user terminal device, transmitting a response indicating at least the presence or absence of a user existing in the surrounding area to the user terminal device; and a perimeter monitor.
  • the present invention it is possible to obtain an image forming system and an image forming apparatus that prevent other users from coming to the place where the image forming apparatus is installed when a certain user is around the place where the image forming apparatus is installed.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing configurations of the beacon transmitter 1 and the image forming apparatus 2 in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the image forming apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing configurations of the beacon transmitter 1 and the image forming apparatus 2 in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the image forming apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing configurations of the beacon transmitter 1 and the image forming apparatus 2 in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the image forming apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • each of a plurality of users carries a beacon transmitter 1, and an image forming apparatus 2 (complex machine, etc.) is arranged at the user's base (office, etc.). , used by multiple users.
  • an image forming apparatus 2 complex machine, etc.
  • a user 102 other than a user 101 who is physically and directly operating the image forming apparatus 2 operates the user terminal device 4 (an image forming apparatus within the site) via a network 3 such as an intranet. 2) can send a print job request to the image forming device 2.
  • FIG. 1 a user 102 other than a user 101 who is physically and directly operating the image forming apparatus 2 operates the user terminal device 4 (an image forming apparatus within the site) via a network 3 such as an intranet. 2) can send a print job request to the image forming device 2.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the beacon transmitter 1 and the image forming device 2 in FIG.
  • the beacon transmitter 1 includes a wireless communication device 11, a display device 12, an input device 13, a storage device 14, a controller 15, and the like.
  • the wireless communication device 11 is an internal device that performs short-range wireless communication according to a predetermined wireless communication standard such as BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) or Bluetooth (registered trademark).
  • a predetermined wireless communication standard such as BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) or Bluetooth (registered trademark).
  • the display device 12 is an internal device such as a liquid crystal display, an indicator, etc. that displays various information (such as the state and settings of the beacon transmitter 1) to the user.
  • the input device 13 is an internal device such as a touch panel and hard keys that detect user operations.
  • the storage device 14 is a non-volatile storage device such as flash memory or hard disk.
  • the storage device 14 stores programs, data, and the like.
  • the controller 15 is equipped with a computer having a CPU (Central Processing Unit), RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), and the like. Execute various processing.
  • the controller 15 periodically and repeatedly causes the wireless communication device 11 to transmit a beacon signal including the user ID or the device ID of the beacon transmitter 1 .
  • set values that can be edited by operating the input device 13 include a user ID (or device ID) such as an employee number, transmission strength of a beacon signal radio field strength at a distance of 10 m -16 dBm, etc.) and transmission frequency of beacon signals (eg, once every 30 seconds, once every minute, once every 5 minutes, etc.) are stored in the storage device 14,
  • the controller 15 causes the wireless communication device 11 to transmit a beacon signal according to the set value.
  • the setting value is set so that the transmission intensity corresponds to the size (range) required for the social distance. good too.
  • the beacon transmitter 1 may be a portable device such as a smartphone that has a short-range wireless communication function.
  • the image forming apparatus 2 is a multi-function machine or the like used by a plurality of registered users, and includes a printing device 31, an image reading device 32, an operation panel 33, a beacon receiver 34, and a communication device. 35 , a storage device 36 and a controller 37 .
  • the printing device 31 is an internal device that prints an image page by page on printing paper (for example, by electrophotography) based on print image data specified by a print job request.
  • the image reading device 32 is an internal device that reads a document image from a document and generates the image data.
  • the operation panel 33 is arranged on the surface of the housing of the image forming apparatus 2 and has a display device that displays various information to the user and an input device that accepts user operations.
  • a liquid crystal display, an indicator, or the like is used as the display device.
  • a hard key, a touch panel, or the like is used as the input device.
  • the beacon receiver 34 is an internal device that receives beacon signals by short-range wireless communication according to the wireless communication standard of the beacon transmitter 1 . That is, the beacon receiver 34 receives the beacon signal from the beacon transmitter 1 carried by the user present in the surrounding area 2a (that is, the communicable area according to the above wireless communication standard) within a predetermined range.
  • the communication device 35 is an internal device that is connected to a network such as a wireless LAN or wired LAN and performs data communication with other devices connected to the network.
  • the storage device 36 is a nonvolatile storage device such as a flash memory or a hard disk.
  • the storage device 36 stores user registration data 41 and the like.
  • the user registration data 41 includes, for each user, the user ID, the device ID of the user's beacon transmitter 1, the user group to which the user belongs, other attribute information, etc., which are associated with each other.
  • the user registration data 41 is stored in the storage device 36 in the image forming apparatus 2, but is stored in a server on the network 3 (file server, resource management server such as active directory, etc.). may have been In that case, using the communication device 35, the user registration data 41 is obtained from the server and used.
  • the controller 37 has a computer, an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), etc., controls internal devices in the image forming apparatus 2, and executes various data processing.
  • the controller 37 operates as a job management section 42 and a peripheral monitoring section 43 by executing programs on a computer.
  • the job management unit 42 receives a print job request received from the user terminal device 4 by the communication device 35, and uses the printing device 31 to execute the print job indicated by the received print job request. .
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 monitors the presence or absence of users in the surrounding area 2a by identifying users existing in the surrounding area 2a based on the beacon signal received by the beacon receiver 34.
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 (a) receives a surroundings confirmation request from the user terminal device 4 via the network 3 using the communication device 35, and (b) receives a surroundings confirmation request from the user terminal device 4.
  • the communication device 35 is used to transmit to the user terminal device 4 via the network 3 a response indicating at least the presence or absence of users existing in the surrounding area 2a.
  • This response may include a message indicating whether or not there are users present in the surrounding area 2a, or may include a list of users present in the surrounding area 2a.
  • the user ID of the sender user is included in the peripheral confirmation request
  • the peripheral monitoring unit 43 (a) identifies the sender user of the peripheral confirmation request based on the peripheral confirmation request, (b) refer to the user registration data 41 indicating the relationship between the users, and based on the user registration data 41, identify a specific related user related to the sender user among the users existing in the surrounding area 2a, ( c) Send a response to the user terminal device 4 indicating whether or not there are any users other than the specific related users existing in the surrounding area 2a.
  • the user registration data 41 indicates a user group of users who are physically close to each other as the above-mentioned attribute information
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 monitors users existing in the surrounding area 2a. Among them, users who belong to the same user group as the sender user are identified as specific related users.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the image forming apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the image forming apparatus 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 uses the beacon receiver 34 to constantly monitor the presence or absence of users (beacon transmitters 1) in the surrounding area 2a. When detected, the user carrying the beacon transmitter 1 is specified based on the received beacon signal. If the beacon signal contains a device ID, the user ID (that is, user) corresponding to the device ID is specified based on the user registration data 41 . In this way, the surroundings monitoring unit 43 keeps track of the users who are currently within the surrounding area 2a.
  • the periphery monitoring unit 43 monitors whether or not the periphery confirmation request is received by the communication device 35 (step S1). It is determined whether or not there is a user in 2a (step S2).
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 identifies (the user ID of) the sender user of the surroundings confirmation request based on the surroundings confirmation request (step S3), and refers to the user registration data 41. Then, specific related users of the sender user are identified, and users other than the specific related users (non-related users) among the users detected in the peripheral area 2a are identified (step S4).
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 determines whether or not there is an unrelated user in the surrounding area 2a (step S5).
  • a list of unrelated users is sent to the user terminal device 4 (that is, the sender user of the peripheral confirmation request) as a response to the peripheral confirmation request (step S6).
  • step S2 when there are no users in the surrounding area 2a (step S2), or when there are specific related users in the surrounding area 2a but there are no unrelated users in the surrounding area 2a (step S5), the surroundings monitoring unit 43 A response indicating that there is no non-related user in the area 2a is transmitted to the user terminal device 4 (that is, the user who sent the peripheral confirmation request) (step S7).
  • the above-mentioned sender user operates the user terminal device 4 to send the peripheral confirmation request to the user terminal device 4 before sending the print job request to the user terminal device 4 .
  • the user terminal device 4 receives the above-described response after transmitting the peripheral confirmation request, the user terminal device 4 displays the response on a predetermined display device. After viewing the response, the sender user determines whether or not to send the print job request to the user terminal device 4 .
  • the job management unit 42 receives the print job request at the communication device 35, and the print job request specified by the print job request.
  • the printed print job is executed by the printing device 31 to output a printed product. Since the above sender user has previously confirmed whether there are any unrelated users in the surrounding area 2a, he/she goes to the installation location of the image forming apparatus 2 to obtain the printed product without increasing the risk of infection. be able to.
  • the beacon receiver 34 receives the beacon signal from the beacon transmitter 1 carried by the user present in the peripheral area 2a within the predetermined range.
  • the surroundings monitoring unit 43 (a) identifies users existing in the surroundings area 2a based on the beacon signal received by the beacon receiver 34, and (b) receives a surroundings confirmation request from the user terminal device 4. A response is sent to the user terminal device 4 indicating whether or not there is a user present in the area 2a.
  • the user who wants to use the image forming apparatus 2 can confirm in advance whether there is another user around the image forming apparatus 2 . Coming to the installation location of the image forming apparatus 2 is suppressed. As a result, the occurrence of a state in which social distance is not ensured is suppressed. Also, even when the user is not physically operating the image forming apparatus 2 but is in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus 2 , other users can recognize the presence of the user in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus 2 . can.
  • the job management unit 42 permits acceptance of a print job request from the user terminal device 4 (i.e., the sending user) that has sent a response to the surroundings confirmation request.
  • acceptance of a print job request from a user terminal device 4 (sender user) to which no response has been sent may be prohibited.
  • the user terminal device 4 (sending user) that has not issued a peripheral confirmation request cannot cause the image forming device 2 to execute the print job.
  • the user terminal device 4 may automatically prohibit the transmission of the print job request by the sender user when the above unrelated user is in the peripheral area 2a.
  • the above-described processing performed in the image forming apparatus 2 may be performed in the user terminal device 4.
  • data required for processing is transferred from the image forming device 2 to the user terminal device 4 and the processing result is transferred from the user terminal device 4 to the image forming device 2 .
  • the present invention is applicable to, for example, image forming apparatuses.

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