Image forming apparatus having an operation portion with a near field communication portion, a touch panel, and an input key
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiyuki Nakayama, Ryoichi Kawasumi
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Abstract
Provided is an input device comprising: a touch panel which receives an operation from a user; an external member having an external surface substantially the same as a surface of the touch panel; and a near field communication unit which is provided near the surrounding of the touch panel and inside of the external member and performs communication with an object to be detected which is brought close to a detection range, wherein a position corresponding to the near field communication unit of the external member projects from the touch panel and is inclined such that the side close to the touch panel is higher than the side distant from the touch panel.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body configured to form an image on a sheet,
- an operation portion disposed at a front side of the image forming apparatus in a front-rear direction of the image forming apparatus main body, the operation portion being rotatable with respect to the image forming apparatus main body, and the operation portion including:
- a near field communication portion configured to communicate with a mobile device by a near field communication;
- a touch panel configured to receive an instruction from a user via a touching operation;
- an input key that is different from the touch panel and capable of inputting information from the user;
- and
- a cover portion configured to cover the near field communication portion, wherein the cover portion is provided with a mark as a target over which the mobile device is to be held to communicate by the near field communication, wherein the mark (i) is positioned below a centerline (a) which is parallel to a width direction that is perpendicular to a vertical direction and the front-rear direction and (b) which passes through a center of the touch panel, and (ii) is positioned between a bottom edge of the operation portion and a bottom edge of the touch panel in the width direction when the operation portion is viewed in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the touch panel;
- wherein the input key is disposed at a right side of the mark in the width direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.