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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Atsushi Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image-forming system comprising an image-forming device and a portable terminal. The image-forming device has a state-detecting part and a panel part that includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, the panel part adapted such that a turned-on/turned-off pattern of the plurality of light-emitting elements is switched, and optical signals destined for the portable terminal and including information on the state of the image-forming device. The portable terminal has an image-capturing part, a storage part for storing an application, a display part for displaying an image and a screen, and a processing part a processing part for identifying, based on the application, the information on the state of the image-forming device included in the optical signals from image data obtained as a result of the image-capturing part capturing an image of the panel part, and for displaying, the state of the image-forming device on the display part.