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Image forming apparatus and control method for the same

AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorNobuyuki Miyoshi

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Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a peripheral image acquisition section, a face detection section, a face recognition section and a printing control section. The peripheral image acquisition section acquires an image of the periphery of the image forming apparatus. The face detection section detects a face of person from the image acquired by the peripheral image acquisition section. The face recognition section calculates a matching rate indicating a matching degree of the face of person detected by the face detection section with a face of a user registered in advance. The printing control section executes a processing relating to printing of the image forming apparatus in a plurality of stages corresponding to the matching rates according to the matching rate calculated by the face recognition section and a threshold value of the matching rate.

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Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

a peripheral image acquisition section configured to acquire a periphery image of the image forming apparatus in a cycle;
a face detection section configured to detect a face of person one or more faces of one or more persons from the periphery image acquired by the peripheral image acquisition section;
a face recognition section configured to calculate a matching rate indicating a degree of matching with a face of a user registered in advance for each face detected from the periphery image;
and
a printing control section configured to control printing processes for each user of each faces detected from a plurality of the periphery images acquired while until the user arrives at position of the image forming apparatus,
wherein each of the printing processes has a plurality of processing stages in which images related to the user will be printed on sheets, each processing stage being associated at least in part with a respective threshold in one or more thresholds,
wherein one or more processing stages among the plurality of processing stages are controlled to be executed by the printing control section if matching rate of the face of the user exceeds the threshold associated with the one or more of processing stages.

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Application: 16/172,986Filed 29 Oct 2018 · continuation
Priority: 15 Jan 2016
Published: US 2019/0068833 A128 Feb 2019
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 1/442
Restricting access, e.g. according to user identity: using a biometric data reading device
G03G 15/50
Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern: machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern,…
G03G 21/04
Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge: preventing copies being made of an…
H04N 1/00251
With a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector: with an apparatus for taking photographic images, e.g. a camera

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Application14/996,378Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jan 2016
US 2019/0068833 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Feb 2019
US 10,148,855 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0208213 A1Published application
US 10,484,575 B2This patent

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