US 11,606,471 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus that performs function in action pattern corresponding to changeable user's request, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorIkuko Shino

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Abstract

An image processing apparatus that is capable of a simple operation and is capable of executing a function in an action pattern corresponding to a changeable user's request. A registration unit registers a function in association with an action pattern. A selection unit designates a function registered by the registration unit and to select one of a first mode and a second mode. A controller controls so as to execute a function designated by the selection unit according to the action pattern registered in association with the designated function when the selection unit selects the first mode, and to execute a function designated by the selection unit according to an action pattern designated by a user irrespective of the action pattern registered in association with the designated function when the selection unit selects the second mode.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising:

one or more processors connected to one or more memories, the one or more processors being configured to:
register setting information about image formation and display-setting information indicating whether to display a confirmation screen that allows a user to confirm the setting information about image formation before execution of print processing, while associating the setting information about image formation and the display-setting information with a button;
display the button on a display screen;
in a case where the button is selected through a short press operation by a user, execute the print processing based on the setting information about image formation associated with the button;
and
in a case where the button is selected through a long press operation by a user,
display an action selection window near the button on the display screen and also display an edit button in the action selection window, and
in response to the edit button being selected, display a setting screen that allows a user to change the setting information about image formation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/337,533Filed 3 Jun 2021 · continuation
Priority: JP JP2017-22289420 Nov 2017
Published: US 2021/0289088 A116 Sep 2021
Granted: 14 Mar 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04N 1/00514
Personalising for a particular user or group of users, e.g. a workgroup or company: for individual users
H04N 1/00389
Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads: programmable function keys, e.g. for one-touch operation
H04N 1/00472
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: using a pop-up window
H04N 1/00474
Output means: outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print

Family

Application16/192,980Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Nov 2018
US 2021/0289088 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Sep 2021
US 11,050,894 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0158690 A1Published application
US 11,606,471 B2This patent

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