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US 12,665,971 B2Granted
Image formation apparatus, control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHayato Shirai
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Abstract
An image formation apparatus, a control method, and a storage medium that can suppress the decrease in the convenience are provided. To this end, each setting of an operation mode is activated with a user selecting a custom home screen from a default home screen in accordance with a usage scene.
Claims26
An image formation apparatus, comprising:
- a display control unit that is capable of switching and displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of home screens at least including a plurality of custom home screens which correspond to a plurality of respective scenes including at least a work scene and on which a plurality of software buttons for executing an image processing function designated by a user are displayed;
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- a changing unit that changes, based on one home screen of the plurality of home screens being displayed on the display unit by the display control unit based on a user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, an operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode corresponding to the one home screen displayed on the display unit based on the user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, wherein
- in a case where the display control unit displays a custom home screen corresponding to the work scene, the changing unit changes the operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode for double-side printing in which a double-side printing setting is automatically activated, a silent mode setting to suppress operating noise of the image formation apparatus is activated, and automatic power-off setting to automatically power off the image formation apparatus is deactivated.
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A method of controlling an image formation apparatus that includes:
- a display control unit that is capable of switching and displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of home screens at least including a plurality of custom home screens which correspond to a plurality of respective scenes including at least a work scene and on which a plurality of software buttons for executing an image processing function designated by a user are displayed;
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- a changing unit that changes, based on one home screen of the plurality of home screens being displayed on the display unit by the display control unit based on a user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, an operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode corresponding to the one home screen displayed on the display unit based on the user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, wherein
- in a case where the display control unit displays a custom home screen corresponding to the work scene, the changing unit changes the operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode for double-side printing in which a double-side printing setting is automatically activated, a silent mode setting to suppress operating noise of the image formation apparatus is activated, and automatic power-off setting to automatically power off the image formation apparatus is deactivated.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an image formation apparatus that includes:
- a display control unit that is capable of switching and displaying, on a display unit, a plurality of home screens at least including a plurality of custom home screens which correspond to a plurality of respective scenes including at least a work scene and on which a plurality of software buttons for executing an image processing function designated by a user are displayed;
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- a changing unit that changes, based on one home screen of the plurality of home screens being displayed on the display unit by the display control unit based on a user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, an operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode corresponding to the one home screen displayed on the display unit based on the user operation for switching the plurality of home screens, wherein
- in a case where the display control unit displays a custom home screen corresponding to the work scene, the changing unit changes the operation mode of the image formation apparatus to an operation mode for double-side printing in which a double-side printing setting is automatically activated, a silent mode setting to suppress operating noise of the image formation apparatus is activated, and automatic power-off setting to automatically power off the image formation apparatus is deactivated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.