Image formation apparatus and image formation system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuma Aoki
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Abstract
An image formation apparatus is configured to communicate with a server apparatus. The server apparatus transmits image data to the image formation apparatus, and executes a charging procedure to determine an amount of money to be charged. The image formation apparatus includes an image data receiving unit configured to receive image data, an image output unit configured to output images in accordance with the image data, a display unit, an input unit configured to receive an input command, and an output control unit configured to control the image output unit in accordance with the input command.
Claims19
An image formation apparatus configured to communicate with a server apparatus, the server apparatus transmitting image data to the image formation apparatus, and executing a charging procedure to determine an amount of money to be charged in accordance with an amount of images to be formed and output, the image formation apparatus comprising:
- an image data receiving unit configured to receive image data transmitted from the server apparatus;
- an image output unit configured to output images in accordance with the receive image data;
- a display unit configured to display an amount of money to be charged if the image output unit outputs the images based on the received image data;
- an input unit configured to receive an input command;
- and
- an output control unit configured to control the image output unit in accordance with the input command.
An image formation system, comprising:
- an image formation apparatus configured to output images in accordance with image data input externally;
- and
- a server apparatus including
- an image data transmitting unit configured to transmit image data to the image formation apparatus;
- and
- a charge processing unit configured to execute a charging procedure to determine an amount of money to be charged in accordance with an amount of images formed and output by the image formation apparatus,
- wherein the image formation apparatus includes:
- an image data receiving unit configured to receive the image data transmitted from the server apparatus;
- an image output unit configured to output images in accordance with the image data received by the image data receiving unit;
- a display unit configured to display the amount of money amount to be charged if the image output unit outputs the images based on the image data received by the image data receiving unit;
- an input unit configured to receive an input command;
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- an output control unit configured to control an amount of images to be output by the image output unit in accordance with the input command.
A computer program product comprising computer readable instructions that cause a computer system to function as an image formation apparatus which is configured to communicate with a server apparatus, the server apparatus transmitting image data to the image formation apparatus, and executing a charging procedure to determine an amount of money to be charged in accordance with an amount of images to be formed and output by the image formation apparatus, the computer readable instructions comprising the steps of:
- receiving image data transmitted from the server apparatus;
- outputting images in accordance with the received image data;
- displaying an amount of money to be charged if the images based on the received image data are output;
- receiving an input command;
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- controlling an amount of images to be output in accordance with the input command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.