Patent ID: 11890882
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A printing device comprising:
a conveyance device configured to convey a printing medium;
a print head configured to print on the printing medium conveyed by the conveyance device; and
a control device configured to execute:
template acquisition processing of acquiring a template from an external device, the template including at least on text object, the at least on text object including a first item as an attribute and a second item as a text content, the at least one text object including a first text object and a second object, the attribute that is the first item of the first text object being set to a first attribute in which a text content is freely input, the text content that is the second item of the first text object to be set, the attribute that is the first item of the second text object being set to a second attribute in which a text content is selectively input from a first predetermined character option and a second predetermined character option, the text content that is the second item of the second text object being set to the first character option and the second character option;
object specifying processing of specifying one target text object of the least one text object included in the template acquired in the template acquisition processing;
data acquisition processing of acquiring character data input by voice or text-converted by voice recognition;
attribute identification processing of identifying an attribute of the target text object specified in the object specifying processing;
character assignment processing of,
when the attribute that is the first item of the target text object is identified as the first attribute in the attribute identification processing, assigning the acquired character data to the first text object that is the target text object, as a character string, and
when the attribute that is the first item of the target text object is identified as the second attribute in the attribute identification processing, assigning a character string included in a character option corresponding to the acquired character data to the second text object that is the target text object, the character option being one of the first character option and the second character option, the first character option and the second character option being the text contents that are the second item of the second text object that is the target text object; and
a printing operation including:
controlling the conveyance device to position the printing medium about the print head;
controlling the print head to print, using the template that includes the target text object, onto the printing medium; and
controlling the conveyance device to output the printed medium from the printing device.