US 11,537,332 B2Granted

Image forming apparatus and control method for excellent usability for users using print data

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorZhi Lin

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Abstract

An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about unprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a printer configured to print an image on a printing medium by a print job being executed,
a display configured to display a plurality of objects each corresponding to a different one of users and based on each of which the image forming apparatus performs user authentication for the corresponding user, and
a controller configured to execute a print job corresponding to an authenticated user,
wherein the controller is further configured to cause the display to switchably display a first screen or a second screen, the first screen being for displaying the plurality of objects in a selectable manner regardless of whether each of the plurality of the objects is an object based on which the image forming apparatus performs the user authentication for a user corresponding to a print job held in the image forming apparatus or not, and the second screen being for displaying, among the plurality of objects, an object based on which the image forming apparatus performs the user authentication for only a user corresponding to a print job which is held in the image forming apparatus and which has not yet been subject to execution of printing by the printer.

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Facts

Application: 17/374,794Filed 13 Jul 2021 · continuation
Priority: JP JP2017-08163417 Apr 2017
Published: US 2021/0342104 A14 Nov 2021
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1207
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
G06F 3/1238
Print job management: secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a…
G06F 3/1259
Print job management: print job monitoring, e.g. job status

Family

Application15/948,633Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Apr 2018
US 2021/0342104 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Nov 2021
US 11,093,181 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0300090 A1Published application
US 11,537,332 B2This patent

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