Patent ID: 8294930
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising a portable terminal unit; a server connected through a network to the portable terminal unit; and a printer capable of printing print data, which are received from the portable terminal unit, wherein the portable terminal unit includes: a photo-taking device that takes a photo and generates photo-image data as an output; an image-acquiring device that acquires the photo-image data generated by the photo-taking device, as image data; an image-storage device that stores the image data acquired by the image-acquiring device; an input device that inputs character and symbol data; a text-data-transmitting device that transmits text data, which comprise characters and symbols input by the input device, to the server; a layout-data-receiving device that receives layout data for printing, which layout data are sent from the server; wherein said layout data includes image arrangement information, the image arrangement information being information for a position of the image data stored in the image storing device on the print date; and a print-data-producing device that places image data stored in the image-storing device in accordance with the image arrangement information included in the layout data received by the layout-data-receiving device, to produce print data; and a print-data-transmitting device that transmits print data produced by the print-data-producing device, to the printer; the server includes: a template-storage device that stores one or more templates of layout information used for printing the image data and the text data by the printer, the one or more templates including the image arrangement information; a text-data-receiving device that receives text data from the portable terminal unit; a layout-data-producing device that inserts text data received by the text-data-receiving device into a template stored in the template-storage device to produce layout data, and a layout-data-transmitting device that sends layout data produced by the layout-data-producing device to the portable unit terminal; the printer includes a print-controlling device that executes a printing operation in accordance with print data sent from the portable terminal unit.