Information processing apparatus and control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuo Sumioka
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an imaging device configured to acquire a peripheral image of the information processing apparatus; a storage device configured to store maintenance information indicating a status of the apparatus for a maintenance; a notification device; a controller configured to detect a face of a person based on the peripheral image acquired by the imaging device, determine whether the detected person is a manager of the information processing apparatus, and control the notification device to inform the maintenance information read from the storage device if the detected person is determined as the manager of the information processing apparatus.
Claims12
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- an imaging device that acquires a peripheral image of the information processing apparatus;
- a storage device that stores state information indicating a status of the information processing apparatus;
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- a controller that
- detects a face of a person from the peripheral image acquired by the imaging device,
- detects, from the peripheral image, a maintenance member which is a replaceable, restock or consumable member or item which is required in a maintenance requiring state in which maintenance is required,
- determines whether the detected person is an administrator of the information processing apparatus,
- determines whether the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state based on the state information,
- determines whether the detected maintenance member is a maintenance requiring member which is required for a maintenance of the information processing apparatus in the maintenance requiring state, and
- enables the information processing apparatus to execute a maintenance operation corresponding to the detected maintenance member if it is determined that the detected person is the administrator, that the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state and that the detected person holds the detected maintenance member.
A control method performed by an information processing apparatus that comprises a storage device storing state information indicating a status of the information processing apparatus, the control method comprising:
- acquiring a peripheral image of an information processing apparatus;
- detecting a face of a person from the peripheral image;
- detecting, from the peripheral image, a maintenance member which is a replaceable, restock or consumable member or item which is required in a maintenance requiring state in which maintenance is required;
- determining whether the detected person is an administrator of the information processing apparatus;
- determining whether the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state based on the state information,
- determining whether the detected maintenance member is a maintenance requiring member which is required for a maintenance of the information processing apparatus in the maintenance requiring state, and
- enabling the information processing apparatus to execute a maintenance operation corresponding to the detected maintenance member if it is determined that the detected person is the administrator, that the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state and that the detected person holds the detected maintenance member.
An information processing system for informing a notification via a notification device of an information processing apparatus, comprising:
- an imaging device that acquires a peripheral image of the information processing apparatus;
- a storage device that stores state information indicating a status of the information processing apparatus;
- a detector that detects a face of a person in the peripheral image acquired by the imaging device;
- a controller that
- determines whether the detected person is an administrator of the information processing apparatus,
- determines whether the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state based on the state information,
- determines whether the detected maintenance member is a maintenance requiring member which is required for a maintenance of the information processing apparatus in the maintenance requiring state, and
- enables the information processing apparatus to execute a maintenance operation corresponding to the detected maintenance member if it is determined that the detected person is the administrator, that the information processing apparatus is in the maintenance requiring state and that the detected person holds the detected maintenance member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.