Image forming apparatus and control method by the same
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideaki Fukaya
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Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a measurement section configured to measure first environmental information of a measurement position in a first period; an acquisition section configured to acquire first external environmental information measured by a first external device; and a controller configured to estimate second environmental information of the measurement position in a second period different from the first period using the first external environmental information, and perform control to execute a maintenance operation based on the second environmental information.
Claims20
An image forming system, comprising:
- an image forming apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- measure first environmental information of a measurement position in a first period;
- acquire first external environmental information measured by a first external device;
- and
- estimate second environmental information of the measurement position in a second period different from the first period using the first external environmental information, and perform control to execute a maintenance operation based on the second environmental information, wherein
- the processor further acquires the first external environmental information and second external environmental information measured by a second external device, and
- if it is determined that the first external environmental information alone is insufficient to estimate the second environmental information, the processor estimates the second environmental information using the first external environmental information and the second external environmental information.
An image forming system, comprising:
- an image forming apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- measure first environmental information of a measurement position in a first period;
- acquire first external environmental information measured by a first external device;
- and
- estimate second environmental information of the measurement position in a second period different from the first period using the first external environmental information, and perform control to execute a maintenance operation based on the second environmental information, wherein
- the processor estimates the second environmental information using a distance from the image forming apparatus to the first external device.
A control method by an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- measuring first environmental information of a measurement position in a first period;
- acquiring first external environmental information measured by a first external device;
- estimating second environmental information of the measurement position in a second period different from the first period using the first external environmental information, and performing control to execute a maintenance operation based on the second environmental information;
- and
- estimating the second environmental information using a distance from the image forming apparatus to the first external device.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- measure at least one of temperature and humidity of a measurement position in a first period;
- receive at least one of a first external temperature and a first external humidity measured outside of the image forming apparatus;
- estimate second environmental information of the measurement position in a second period different from the first period using at least one of the first external temperature and the first external humidity, and perform control to execute a maintenance operation on the image forming apparatus based on the second environmental information;
- and
- estimating the second environmental information using a distance from the image forming apparatus to the measurement position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.