IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: FURUBAYASHI TOSHIYA, MURAKAWA AKIRA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.06.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming system that, in short-range radio communication, appropriately connects to a connection destination device desired by a user while suppressing a reduction in convenience of the user.SOLUTION: A portable terminal 50, when connection candidate devices in short-range radio communication are detected S11, determines the number of detected connection candidate devices S13, and determines a pairing method in the short-range radio communication according to the number of the detected devices. When a single connection candidate device is detected as the connection candidate device, the portable terminal determines, as the pairing method, a method not involving work (checking work) where a user of the portable terminal checks a connection destination device in the short-range radio communication S14. Meanwhile, when a plurality of connection candidate devices are detected as the connection candidate device, the portable terminal determines a method involving the checking work as the pairing method S16.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】近距離無線通信において、ユーザの利便性が低下することを抑制しつつ、ユーザの所望の接続先装置に的確に接続する画像形成システムを提供する。【解決手段】携帯端末５０は、近距離無線通信における接続候補装置が検出されるＳ１１と、接続候補装置の検出台数を判定しＳ１３、検出台数に応じて近距離無線通信におけるペアリング方式を決定する。単一の接続候補装置が接続候補装置として検出される場合は、携帯端末は、近距離無線通信における接続先装置を携帯端末のユーザが確認する作業（確認作業）を伴わない方式をペアリング方式として決定するＳ１４。一方、複数の接続候補装置が接続候補装置として検出される場合は、携帯端末は、確認作業を伴う方式をペアリング方式として決定するＳ１６。【選択図】図４