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US 2007/0177439 A1Published application
Displaying supply information of an image forming apparatus
OwnerYuka Saito, Yasuyuki Igarashi +4inventors
InventorsYuka Saito, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Toshio Kitazawa, Yoshiya Inoue, Takeshi Fujita, Hiroshi Gotoh
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Abstract
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of managing supply information of an image forming device provided in an image forming apparatus, and displaying the supply information.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a detector configured to detect supply information of an image forming device provided in the image forming apparatus;
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- a controller configured to store the supply information in a corresponding manner with display settings information, update the supply information to generate updated supply information when the controller receives notification that the supply information is updated, and generate a supply information screen comprising the updated supply information to be displayed on a display device according to the display settings information.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a detector configured to detect supply information of an image forming device when electric power supplied to the detector is turned on;
- and
- a controller configured to determine whether the electric power is turned on upon receiving a request for displaying the supply information to generate a first determination result, turn on the electric power when the first determination result indicates that the electric power is turned off, update the supply information to generate updated supply information, display a supply information screen comprising the updated supply information, and turn off the electric power after the supply information is displayed.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a detector configured to detect supply information of an image forming device when electric power supplied to the detector is turned on;
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- a controller configured to store the supply information, determine whether the electric power is turned on upon receiving a request for displaying the supply information to generate a determination result, obtain the stored supply information when the determination result indicates that the electric power is turned off, and display a supply information screen comprising the stored supply information and notification notifying a user that the supply information is not updated.
A method of displaying supply information of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- storing supply information of an image forming device provided in the image forming apparatus, display settings information previously set for the supply information of the image forming device, and power supply information indicating whether the apparatus is in an energy save mode;
- receiving a request for displaying the supply information or notification that updated supply information is detected;
- determining whether the updated supply information is obtainable based on the power supply information to generate a first determination result;
- determining whether to obtain the updated supply information for display based on the display settings information to generate a second determination result;
- obtaining the updated supply information when the first determination result indicates that the apparatus is not in the energy save mode and when the second determination result indicates that the supply information is to be displayed;
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- generating a first supply information screen comprising the updated supply information when the first determination result indicates that the apparatus is not in the energy save mode and when the second determination result indicates that the supply information is to be displayed.
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