US 12,086,493 B2
Image forming system to which multiple image forming devices that output image data are connected via a network
Kenichiroh Imayoshi, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/227,271.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-125399 (JP), filed on Aug. 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0045634 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/129 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1203 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/126 (2013.01); G06F 3/1291 (2013.01); G06F 3/1292 (2013.01); H04N 1/34 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming system including a plurality of image forming devices each of which outputs image data, the plurality of image forming devices being connected via a network, the image forming system comprising:
an operation acceptor that accepts an operation;
a network communicator that performs communication via the network;
a terminal communicator that communicates with a mobile terminal;
an information acquirer that acquires, as connection information, a communication status between the mobile terminal and the plurality of image forming devices;
an output-destination specifier that specifies an output destination of the image data based on the connection information; and
a collator that collates address information acquired from the mobile terminal with the connection information,
wherein the collator outputs, as a collation result, information corresponding to the image forming device that communicates with the mobile terminal and that is registered in the address information, and
the output-destination specifier extracts, from the plurality of image forming devices communicating with the mobile terminal, a first image forming device to be specified as the output destination of the image data based on the collation result of the collator, and specifies, as the output destination of the image data, from the plurality of image forming devices communicating with the mobile terminal, a second image forming device accepted by the operation acceptor.