US 10,649,382 B2Granted

Control apparatus for controlling system including image forming apparatus and sheet discharge apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsToru Shinnae, Jerome Guermont, Nobuaki Miyahara, Ryo Fujita, Yoshitaka Oba

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Abstract

A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A control apparatus for controlling a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet discharge apparatus to discharge the sheet to a sheet stacking tray, the control apparatus comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the control apparatus to:
receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image based on the configuration information,
receive stacking state information including a stacking amount of sheets stacked as a sheet bundle, on the sheet stacking tray and generate a sheet bundle image representing the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information,
display, on a display, a screen in which the sheet bundle image is mapped at a sheet stacking portion, corresponding to the sheet stacking tray, of the system configuration image,
receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, wherein the image forming job which is identified by the job identification information is a job selected from an execution history list of a plurality of image forming jobs which have been executed and which have not yet been removed from the sheet discharge apparatus, and
generate a first thumbnail image and a last thumbnail image, wherein the first thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a first discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list and the last thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a last discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list,
wherein the processor simultaneously displays, on the display, a first sheet bundle image of the image forming job selected from the execution history list, a second sheet bundle image corresponding to an image forming job which is not selected from the execution history list, the first thumbnail image, and the last thumbnail image, and
wherein the processor displays the first sheet bundle image and the second sheet bundle image in different display forms.

7 more elements

A method for a control apparatus for controlling a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet discharge apparatus to discharge the sheet to a sheet stacking tray, the method comprising:

receiving configuration information of the system and generating a system configuration image based on the configuration information;
receiving stacking state information including a stacking amount of sheets stacked, as a sheet bundle, on the sheet stacking tray and generating a sheet bundle image representing the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information;
displaying, on a display, a screen in which the sheet bundle image is mapped at a sheet stacking portion, corresponding to the sheet stacking tray, of the system configuration image;
receiving job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, wherein the image forming job which is identified by the job identification information is a job selected from an execution history list of a plurality of image forming jobs which have been executed and which have not yet been removed from the sheet discharge apparatus;
and
generating a first thumbnail image and a last thumbnail image, wherein the first thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a first discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list and the last thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a last discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list,
wherein displaying includes simultaneously displaying, on the display, a first sheet bundle image of the image forming job selected from the execution history list, a second sheet bundle image corresponding to an image forming job which is not selected from the execution history list, the first thumbnail image, and the last thumbnail image, and
wherein displaying includes displaying the first sheet bundle image and the second sheet bundle image in different display forms.

5 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to cause a control apparatus to perform a method for a control apparatus for controlling a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet discharge apparatus to discharge the sheet to a sheet stacking tray, the method comprising:

receiving configuration information of the system and generating a system configuration image based on the configuration information;
receiving stacking state information including a stacking amount of sheets stacked, as a sheet bundle, on the sheet stacking tray and generating a sheet bundle image representing the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information;
displaying, on a display, a screen in which the sheet bundle image is mapped at a sheet stacking portion, corresponding to the sheet stacking tray, of the system configuration image;
receiving job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, wherein the image forming job which is identified by the job identification information is a job selected from an execution history list of a plurality of image forming jobs which have been executed and which have not yet been removed from the sheet discharge apparatus;
and
generating a first thumbnail image and a last thumbnail image, wherein the first thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a first discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list and the last thumbnail image is a thumbnail image of an image which is formed on a last discharged sheet of the image forming job selected from the execution history list,
wherein displaying includes simultaneously displaying, on the display, a first sheet bundle image of the image forming job selected from the execution history list, a second sheet bundle image corresponding to an image forming job which is not selected from the execution history list, the first thumbnail image, and the last thumbnail image, and
wherein displaying includes displaying the first sheet bundle image and the second sheet bundle image in different display forms.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/982,621Filed 17 May 2018
Priority: JP 2017-10113822 May 2017
Published: US 2018/0335741 A122 Nov 2018
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G03G 15/5091
Remote control machines, e.g. by a host: for user-identification or authorisation
B65H 29/00
Delivering or advancing articles from machines
B65H 33/00
Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
G03G 15/6529
Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material: transporting