Patent ID: 9621750
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image forming system, comprising: a portable terminal device that includes an imaging device, a display device, and an input device; a plurality of image forming apparatuses that execute print jobs; and a server that is connected with the portable terminal device and the plurality of image forming apparatuses via a network; the portable terminal device including the server stores job information about the print jobs, for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses included in the image forming system; the job information includes a print-job sequence for execution by a target one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and for each of the print jobs, the number of printed sheets per copy on the print job, and the number of copies on the print job; the job information acquisition circuit requests the server to acquire the job information of any of the plurality of image forming apparatuses present within a range captured by the imaging device; the server reports the job information to the portable terminal device; the augmented reality circuit calculates an execution time of print jobs preceding a login user's print job, by dividing the total number of printed sheets, which multiplies the number of printed sheets per copy on the print job by the number of copies on the print job for each of the preceding print jobs, by a printing speed of the image forming apparatus; the augmented reality circuit generates, if the augmented reality circuit determines that the calculated execution time is equal to or more than a specific period, a job information image including the login user's print job enlarged compared with the other print jobs; the display device is caused to display a composite image where a field of the login user's print job is extracted from the job information image, by changing a location and a direction in a real space of the portable terminal device so that the target one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses for the composite image is displayed on the display device; the field of the login user print job, which is displayed having been extracted from the job information image on the display device, is inserted into a new job information image of the target image forming apparatus, by swiping via the input device; the job moving circuit requests the server to insert the login user print-job into the target image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus for which the field of the login user print job has been extracted; the server makes a request for insertion of the login user print job to both the target image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus for which the field of the login user print job has been extracted; and the image forming apparatus for which the field of the login user print job has been extracted transmits the login user print job to the target image forming apparatus via the network.