Image forming apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoko Takenaka, Akinori Takeo, Nobuaki Fukasawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus issues a content display trigger if a predetermined event related to a user operation is received. When the content display trigger is issued, the image forming apparatus acquires web content from a content server based on path information set on a signage setting screen, and displays the acquired web content. If a hyperlink in the web content is pressed on the displayed web content, the image forming apparatus downloads content to be printed that is the linked content, and displays a print dialog on the web content. The image forming apparatus prints the content to be printed if an instruction to print the content to be printed is issued using the print dialog.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit configured to, if a predetermined event related to a user operation is received, acquire first content that has been set;
- a display control unit configured to control display of the acquired first content on a display unit, the display control unit displaying a setting screen on which information for displaying the first content and any timing as a timing for displaying the first content are settable, the any timing including at least a timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus and a timing after auto clear processing, the auto clear processing being processing of clearing a setting state on a screen displayed on the display unit of the image forming apparatus and returning to an initial value;
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- a control unit configured to perform control so as to execute print processing of second content based on information related to the second content related to the first content being selected in the displayed first content and the image forming apparatus being authenticated, and so as not to execute the print processing of the second content based on the information related to the second content being selected in the displayed first content and the image forming apparatus not being authenticated, in a case where, as the timing for displaying the first content, the timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus is set on the setting screen.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a setting unit configured to set path information indicating a storage location of each of first content and second content associated with the first content;
- an acquisition unit configured to, if a predetermined event related to a user operation is received, acquire the first content based on the set path information;
- a display control unit configured to control display of the acquired first content on a display unit, the display control unit displaying a setting screen on which information for displaying the first content and any timing as a timing for displaying the first content are settable, the any timing including at least a timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus and a timing after auto clear processing, the auto clear processing being processing of clearing a setting state on a screen displayed on the display unit of the image forming apparatus and returning to an initial value;
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- a control unit configured to perform control so as to acquire the second content based on the set path information and execute print processing of the acquired second content based on the first content being displayed and the image forming apparatus being authenticated, and so as not to execute the print processing of the second content based on the first content being displayed and the image forming apparatus not being authenticated, in a case where, as the timing for displaying the first content, the timing after authentication processing to the image forming apparatus is set on the setting screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.