US 10,313,541 B2Granted

Printing apparatus capable of identifying user

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHiroyuki Morii

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Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a login control unit, including a user table for registering users permitted to log into the printing apparatus, configured to display a login screen including a list of the users registered in the user table, and to permit, a user to log into the printing apparatus when selection of the user is received through the login screen, a printing control unit configured to execute processing for printing print data transmitted from an external apparatus and stored in a storage unit, based on a print start operation performed by the user permitted to log into the printing apparatus, and a management unit configured to manage owner information indicating an owner of the print data stored in the storage unit. The login control unit is configured to acquire the owner information from the management unit, and display the login screen based on the acquired owner information.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus that uses a job management unit configured to manage job information about a print job, a user management unit configured to manage user information about registered users, and a display unit configured to display information, the printing apparatus comprising:

a printing unit configured to perform printing based on a print job, and
one or more controllers including a processor that executes a program or a circuit having a function, the one or more controllers configured to function as:
a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display a user selection screen for selecting one of the registered users, the user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the registered users are arrangeable, and the user selection screen having a plurality of display states including a first display state and a second display state, and
cause, based on user information associated with a selection object selected on the user selection screen, the display unit to display a job list screen capable of listing print jobs associated with the user information,
wherein, in the first display state, at least one object, among the plurality of selection objects, corresponding to a first user being one of the registered users is arranged on the user selection screen, and at least one object, among the plurality of selection objects, corresponding to a second user being one of the registered users is not arranged on the user selection screen, in a case where a print job associated with the first user is held and a print job associated with the second user is not held by the printing apparatus, and
wherein, in the second state, the at least one object corresponding to the first user and the at least one object-corresponding to the second user are arranged on the user selection screen, without depending on whether a job associated with the first user or a job associated with the second user is held or not held by the printing apparatus.

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A method for controlling a printing apparatus that uses a job management unit configured to manage job information about a registered print job, a user management unit configured to manage user information about registered users, a display unit configured to display information, and a printing unit configured to perform printing based on a print job, the method comprising:

causing the display unit to display a user selection screen for selecting one of the registered users, the user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects each corresponding to the registered users is arrangeable, and the user selection screen having a plurality of display states including a first display state and a second display state;
and
causing, based on user information associated with a selection object selected on the user selection screen, the display unit to display a job list screen capable of listing print jobs associated with the user information,
wherein, in the first display state, at least one object, among the plurality of selection objects, corresponding to a first user being one of the registered users is arranged on the user selection screen and at least one object, among the plurality of selection objects, corresponding to a second user being one of the registered users is not arranged on the user selection screen, in a case where a print job associated with the first user is held and a print job associated with the second user is not held by the printing apparatus, and
wherein, in the second state, the at least one object corresponding to the first user and the at least one object corresponding to the second user are arranged on the user selection screen, without depending on whether a job associated with the first user or a job associated with the second user is held or not held by the printing apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/205,582Filed 8 Jul 2016
Priority: JP 2015-13889610 Jul 2015
Published: US 2017/0013152 A112 Jan 2017
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1238
Print job management: secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a…
H04N 1/00506
Tailoring a user interface [UI] to specific requirements: customising to the data to be displayed
H04N 1/00509
Tailoring a user interface [UI] to specific requirements: personalising for a particular user or group of users, e.g. a workgroup or company