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US 11,079,982 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus, recording medium, and control method for visually displaying unresolved errors
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKanji Nakagawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. When an error occurs, the CPU notifies a user or the like of the error and adds information about the error to an error table. When the error is resolved, the CPU deletes the information about the resolved error from the error table. The CPU refers to the error table and displays, on a display, a home screen in which a badge indicating the number of unresolved errors in each operation mode is displayed. When a mode selection button on which the badge is displayed is touched, the CPU re-notifies the user of the unresolved errors.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an error information storage that stores, in a memory, error information on an error that has occurred;
- a notifier that notifies an error message corresponding to the error;
- a determiner that determines whether the error has been resolved;
- an error information deleter that deletes, from the memory, error information on an error determined by the determiner to have been resolved;
- a counter that counts a number of one or more unresolved errors determined by the determiner not to have been resolved;
- a number displayer that visually displays the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted by the counter;
- and
- a function selection screen displayer that displays a function selection screen which includes a function selection image for selecting one of a plurality of functions and allows selection of a function to use from among the plurality of functions,
- wherein the error information storage stores the error information which includes information on a function at a time of occurrence that is a function having been selected when the error has occurred,
- wherein the counter counts the number of the one or more unresolved errors for each function at the time of occurrence,
- wherein
- the number displayer displays the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted by the counter for each function at the time of occurrence in a badge that is placed in a vicinity of a corresponding function selection image or at least partially overlaps with the corresponding function selection image,
- wherein the counter phasedly counts a number of one or more unresolved errors that are each to be resolved in phases, and
- wherein the number displayer displays count numbers, which are obtained through phased counting by the counter, separately in badges equal in number to the phases, so as to make the count numbers distinguishable for each phase.
11 more elements
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a control program for controlling an image forming apparatus including an error information storage that stores, in a memory, error information on an error that has occurred, the control program causing a processor of the image forming apparatus to execute a method including:
- notifying an error message corresponding to the error;
- determining whether the error has been resolved;
- deleting, from the memory, error information on an error determined to have been resolved during the determining;
- counting a number of one or more unresolved errors determined not to have been resolved during the determining;
- and
- visually displaying, on a display device, the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted during the counting, wherein the processor further:
- displays, a function selection screen which includes a function selection image for selecting one of a plurality of functions and allows selection of a function to use from among the plurality of functions;
- stores, the error information which includes information on a function at a time of occurrence that is a function having been selected when the error has occurred;
- counts, the number of the one or more unresolved errors for each function at the time of occurrence:
- displays the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted by the counter for each function at the time of occurrence in a badge that is placed in a vicinity of a corresponding function selection image or at least partially overlaps with the corresponding function selection image;
- counts, a number of one or more unresolved errors that are each to be resolved in phases;
- and
- displays, the count numbers, which are obtained through phased counting, separately in badges equal in number to the phases, so as to make the count numbers distinguishable for each phase.
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A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus including an error information storage that stores, in a memory, error information on an error that has occurred, the control method comprising:
- (a) notifying an error message corresponding to the error;
- (b) determining whether the error has been resolved;
- (c) deleting, from the memory, error information on an error determined to have been resolved during the (b);
- (d) counting a number of one or more unresolved errors determined not to have been resolved during the (b);
- and
- (e) visually displaying, on a display device, the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted during the (d);
- (f) displaying, a function selection screen which includes a function selection image for selecting one of a plurality of functions and allows selection of a function to use from among the plurality of functions;
- (g) storing, the error information which includes information on a function at a time of occurrence that is a function having been selected when the error has occurred;
- (h) counting, the number of the one or more unresolved errors for each function at the time of occurrence;
- (i) displaying the number of the one or more unresolved errors counted by the counter for each function at the time of occurrence in a badge that is placed in a vicinity of a corresponding function selection image or at least partially overlaps with the corresponding function selection image;
- (j) counting phasedly, a number of one or more unresolved errors that are each to be resolved in phases;
- and
- (k) displaying, the count numbers, which are obtained through phased counting, separately in badges equal in number to the phases, so as to make the count numbers distinguishable for each phase.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.