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US 12,086,490 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus generates folder to store data, appropriately controlling display a folder that satisfy a display condition, and folder display control method
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMikiya Okada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a controller, a storage that stores data, and an image former that forms an image, based on the data. The controller stores data received from an external apparatus, in an individual folder to which a name based on information on the external apparatus is assigned, enables settings for the individual folder, and displays, on a screen that displays the individual folder, the individual folder that is set to satisfy a display condition, regardless of whether or not data is stored in the individual folder.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a controller;
- a storage that is capable of storing data;
- and
- an image former that forms an image based on the data, wherein
- the storage has an individual folder, and
- the controller
- stores, if the data has been received from an external apparatus, the data in the individual folder to which a name based on information on the external apparatus is assigned,
- enables settings for the individual folder,
- displays, on a screen that displays the individual folder, the individual folder that is set to satisfy a display condition, regardless of whether the data is stored in the individual folder, and
- hides the individual folder from the screen in a case that the individual folder is an individual folder that does not satisfy a display condition and does not store the data.
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A folder display control method comprising:
- storing, if data has been received from an external apparatus, the data in an individual folder to which a name based on information on the external apparatus is assigned;
- enabling settings for the individual folder;
- displaying, on a screen that displays the individual folder, the individual folder that is set to satisfy a display condition, regardless of whether the data is stored in the individual folder;
- and
- hiding the individual folder from the screen in a case that the individual folder is an individual folder that does not satisfy a display condition and does not store the data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.