Sheet processing apparatus with delayed processing
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Mutsuno, Masaki Kashiwagi, Akinori Takeo, Satoshi Totsuka
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler that executes a stapling process on sheets set in a sheet insertion opening by a user, and a sheet detecting sensor that detects the sheets set in the sheet insertion opening. The sheet processing apparatus displays a setting screen for setting a time until the staple process is executed, and causes the stapler to execute the stapling process according to elapse of the set time after the sheet detecting sensor detects the sheets.
Claims6
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a binding unit configured to execute a binding process for binding sheets inserted into a sheet insertion opening;
- a detection unit configured to detect the sheets;
- a display unit configured to display a setting screen for setting a time period form when the detection unit detects the sheets until when the binding unit executes the binding process;
- a receiving unit configured to receive an execution instruction of the binding process from the user;
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- a control unit configured to control the binding unit such that:
- (i) the binding process is executed before the time period set via the setting screen elapses, in a case where the receiving unit receives the execution instruction of the binding process before the time period set via the setting screen elapses;
- (ii) the binding process is executed according to the elapse of time period set via the setting screen, in a case where the receiving unit doesn't receive the execution instruction of the binding process and the time period set via the setting screen elapses.
A method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus, the sheet processing apparatus including a binding unit configured to execute a binding process for binding sheets inserted into a sheet insertion opening, the control method comprising:
- detecting the sheets;
- displaying a setting screen for setting a time period from when the detection unit detects the sheets until when the binding unit executes the binding process;
- receiving an execution instruction of the binding process from the user;
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- control the binding unit such that:
- (i) the binding process is executed before the time period set via the setting screen elapses, in a case where the receiving unit receives the execution instruction of the binding process before the time period set via the setting screen elapses;
- (ii) the binding process is executed according to the elapse of time period set via the setting screen, in a case where the receiving unit doesn't receive the execution instruction of the binding process and the time period set via the setting screen elapses.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to perform a method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus including a sheet processing unit configured to execute a sheet process on sheets inserted into a sheet insertion opening, the method comprising:
- detecting the sheets;
- displaying a setting screen for setting a time period from when the detection unit detects the sheets until when the binding unit executes the binding process;
- receiving an execution instruction of the binding process from the user;
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- control the binding unit such that:
- (i) the binding process is executed before the time period set via the setting screen elapses, in a case where the receiving unit receives the execution instruction of the binding process before the time period set via the setting screen elapses;
- (ii) the binding process is executed according to the elapse of time period set via the setting screen, in a case where the receiving unit doesn't receive the execution instruction of the binding process and the time period set via the setting screen elapses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.