Cooperative system, information processing device, cooperation method, and cooperative program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10341832-B2
Application number	US-201715720228-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2017
Priority date	Nov 2, 2016
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

An information processing device of a cooperative system that further includes a portable device includes: a display that displays an image; a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact; and a hardware processor that detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact, establishes a communication path with the portable device, switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when a communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor, and displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor no longer detecting the portable device in the cooperation mode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cooperative system comprising an information processing device and a portable device carried by a user, wherein
the information processing device includes:
a display that displays an image;
a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact; and
a hardware processor that:
detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting that the portable device is placed on the display surface;
establishes a communication path with the portable device;
switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when a communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor; and
displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor detecting that the portable device is removed from the display surface and the communication path is still established.

2. The cooperative system according to claim 1 , wherein
the portable device includes
a hardware processor that:
accepts an operation input by a user;
displays a portable-side setting screen for settling a portable-side setting value used for executing portable-side processing defined as processing to be executed by the portable device among processing in the cooperation mode;
sets the portable-side setting value settled based on an operation accepted by the hardware processor; and
executes the portable-side processing in cooperation with the information processing device based on the set portable-side setting value, and

the information processing device further includes the hardware processor that:
accepts an operation input by a user in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact;
displays, on the display, a device-side setting screen for settling one or more device-side setting values used for executing device-side processing defined as processing to be executed by the information processing device among processing in the cooperation mode;
sets the device-side setting value settled based on an operation accepted by the hardware processor; and
executes the device-side processing in cooperation with the portable device based on the set device-side setting value.

3. The cooperative system according to claim 2 , wherein
the information processing device further includes the hardware processor that:
acquires one or more portable-side candidate values, each of which is a candidate for a portable-side setting value settleable by the portable device while the portable-side setting screen is being displayed;
displays the acquired one or more portable-side candidate values on the display; and
transmits, in response to selection of one or more of the one or more portable-side candidate values displayed on the display by an operation accepted by the hardware processor, a direction to set the selected one or more portable-side candidate values to the portable device, and
the portable device further includes the hardware processor that causes, in response to reception of the direction to set the selected one or more portable candidate values from the information processing device, the hardware processor to set the selected one or more portable-side candidate values as the portable-side setting values.

4. An information processing device that executes cooperative processing in cooperation with a portable device carried by a user, the information processing device comprising:
a display that displays an image;
a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact;
a hardware processor that:
detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting that the portable device is placed on the display surface;
establishes a communication path with the portable device;
switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when the communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor; and
displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor detecting that the portable device is removed from the display surface and the communication path is still established.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the related image includes a virtual image that imitates an appearance of the portable device.

6. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the related image includes device identification information that identifies the portable device.

7. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the hardware processor further acquires, from the portable device, image information on a portable-side setting screen displayed on the portable device to display on the display.

8. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the hardware processor further:
acquires one or more portable-side candidate values, each of which is a candidate for a portable-side setting value settleable by the portable device while the portable device displays a portable-side setting screen; and
displays the acquired one or more portable-side candidate values on the display.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8 , wherein the hardware processor further:
accepts an operation input by a user in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact; and
transmits, in response to selection of one or more of one or more portable-side candidate values displayed on the display by an operation accepted by the hardware processor, a direction to set the selected one or more portable-side candidate values to the portable device.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the hardware processor further:
displays, on the display, a device-side setting screen for settling one or more device-side setting values used for executing device-side processing defined as processing to be executed by the information processing device among processing in the cooperation mode;
sets the device-side setting value settled based on an operation accepted by the hardware processor;
executes the device-side processing in cooperation with the portable device based on the set device-side setting value; and
accepts an operation of selecting one of any one of the one or more portable-side setting values displayed on the display and any one of the one or more device-side setting values selectable on the device-side setting screen, while the other is being selected.

11. The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the hardware processor further:
accepts an operation input by a user in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact;
displays, on the display, a device-side setting screen for settling one or more device-side setting values that executes device-side processing defined as processing to be executed by the information processing device among the cooperative processing;
sets the device-side setting value settled based on an operation accepted by the hardware processor;
executes the device-side processing in cooperation with the portable device based on the set device-side setting value;
acquires screen information regarding a portable-side setting screen displayed by the portable device from the portable device and displays

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Inc

Inventors

• Tomiyasu Kazuhiro
• Kurumasa Yoichi
• Haba Shoko
• Kawabata Mie
• Nishimura Ryosuke
• Qu Zhenhuan

Classifications

• H04L67/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L29/04

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L1/0076

  Distributed coding, e.g. network coding, involving channel coding (coding in both space and time H04L1/0618; cooperative diversity H04B7/022) · CPC title

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L67/04

  specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability · CPC title