Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsShoichi Sakaguchi, Fumiya Sakashita, Junpei Takada, Yumi Hirobe, Takuma Fujikawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a manual input operation via an operation device and a voice instruction via a microphone; and a controller that executes a job on the basis of setting received by the receiver. The controller performs control of not executing a predefined job of the image forming apparatus when the microphone is brought into a state where voice is input and executing the predefined job when the microphone is not in the state where voice is input.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus that includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a voice input device that receives an input of voice from a user;
- and
- a control device that includes a processor and, through the processor executing a control program, acts as:
- a receiver that receives a voice instruction based on the voice input to the voice input device;
- and
- a controller that executes a job in accordance with content of the voice instruction received by the receiver,
- wherein the controller is capable of selectively setting an ordinary mode in which the image forming apparatus operates normally, and a silent mode in which the image forming apparatus operates with reduced driving sound, and
- the controller causes the image forming apparatus to execute a predefined job in which the image forming apparatus operates with driving sound of not less than a predetermined sound volume, in the silent mode when the voice input device is brought into a state where the voice is input, and causes the image forming apparatus to execute the predefined job, in the ordinary mode, when the voice input device is not in a state where the voice is input.
An image forming apparatus that includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a voice input device that receives an input of voice from a user;
- and
- a control device that includes a processor and, through the processor executing a control program, acts as:
- a receiver that receives a voice instruction based on the voice input to the voice input device;
- and
- a controller that executes a job in accordance with content of the voice instruction received by the receiver,
- wherein the controller performs control of not executing a predefined job at least for a predefined period of time when the voice input device is brought into a state where the voice is input, and executing the predefined job when the voice input device is not in a state where the voice is input,
- wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises:
- a post-processing device that performs stapling on recording paper with an image recorded thereon,
- wherein the controller controls operations of the post-processing device by switching an automatic stapling mode of automatically performing the stapling and a manual stapling mode of manually performing the stapling, and
- when the voice input device is in the state where the voice is input, the controller does not execute, as the predefined job, an operation of the post-processing device in the manual stapling mode at least for a predefined period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.