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.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body configured to form an image on a sheet;
- an image reading portion configured to read an image on an original document, the image reading portion being disposed at an upper side with respect to the image forming apparatus main body in a vertical direction;
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- an operation portion disposed at a front side with respect to the image reading portion in a front-rear direction of the image forming apparatus, the operation portion being capable of tilting, the operation portion including:
- a near field communication portion configured to communicate with a telecommunication device by near field communication;
- a touch panel configured to receive an instruction from a user via a touch operation;
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- a cover portion configured to cover the near field communication portion, the cover portion being provided with a mark as a target over which the telecommunication device is to be held to communicate by the near field communication,
- wherein the mark is disposed at an outer side with respect to the touch panel in a plane parallel to a surface of the touch panel and at a front side with respect to a centerline that passes through a center of the touch panel and extends in a right-left direction perpendicular both to the front-rear direction and the vertical direction, and
- wherein, in a case that the image forming apparatus is viewed from a front side in the front-rear direction thereof, a discharge space, on which the sheet is discharged from the image forming apparatus main body, that is disposed between the image reading portion and the image forming apparatus main body is visible to a left side with respect to a left edge of the operation portion in the right-left direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.