Image forming apparatus and communication system that utilize group chat function
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorYoshitaka Matsuki
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a setup unit, a language identification unit, and a controller. The setup unit establishes a condition that enables group chat to be performed, among the image forming apparatus and a plurality of information processing apparatuses, by activating a group chat tool. The language identification unit identifies, when a communication device receives a message inputted to the group chat from the information processing apparatus, a language of the message. When the language identified by the language identification unit is not installed, the controller retrieves language data indicating the identified language from a storage device, and installs the identified language as a language usable with the image forming apparatus.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus including an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication device that performs data communication;
- a storage device containing a plurality of predetermined language data;
- and
- a first control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a control program, as;
- a setup unit that establishes, by activating a group chat tool, a condition that enables group chat to be performed, among members including the image forming apparatus and a plurality of information processing apparatuses;
- a language identification unit that identifies, when the communication device receives a message inputted to the group chat from the information processing apparatus, a language of the message;
- and
- a controller that installs the language indicated by the language data retrieved from the storage device, as a language usable with the image forming apparatus,
- wherein, when the language identified by the language identification unit is not installed, the controller retrieves the language data indicating the identified language from the storage device, and installs the identified language as a language usable with the image forming apparatus.
A communication system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
- and
- a plurality of information processing apparatuses,
- the image forming apparatus and the plurality of information processing apparatuses being configured to perform data communication with each other via a network,
- wherein the plurality of information processing apparatuses each include:
- a display device;
- an operation device to be operated by a user;
- a first communication device that performs data communication;
- and
- a first control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a control program, as:
- a first setup unit that establishes a condition that enables group chat to be performed, by activating a group chat tool, and causes the display device to display a group chat screen;
- and
- a first controller that causes the first communication device, when a message is inputted to the group chat screen through the operation device, to transmit the message to the image forming apparatus, via a network, and
- the image forming apparatus includes:
- an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium;
- a second communication device that performs data communication;
- a storage device containing a plurality of predetermined language data;
- and
- a second control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a second control program, as:
- a second setup unit that establishes a condition that enables group chat to be performed, by activating a group chat tool;
- a language identification unit that identifies, when the second communication device receives the message from the plurality of information processing apparatuses, a language of the message;
- and
- a second controller that installs the language indicated by the language data retrieved from the storage device, as a language usable with the image forming apparatus, and
- when the language identified by the language identification unit is not installed, the second controller retrieves language data indicating the identified language from the storage device, and installs the identified language as a language usable with the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.