US 2009/0021761 A1Published application

Multifunction peripheral device

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsNobuhiko Suzuki, Hiroko Ishikawa, Hirotsugu Takahata

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Abstract

A multifunction peripheral device capable of being operated in a plurality of switchable operational modes is provided. The multifunction peripheral device includes a reader unit with a light source and a light receiving element to receive the light reflected on the original document to generate image data, operation receiving members, through which a user's instructions are entered, a valid instruction storage unit to store valid instruction information, which defines correspondence between a valid instruction and a valid instruction receiving member, a judging unit to judge as to whether an operation entered through one of the operation receiving members is the valid instruction based on the valid instruction information and a current operational mode, and a switching unit to switch the light source on when the judging unit judges that the entered operation is the valid instruction.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A multifunction peripheral device having a plurality of operational functions and capable of being operated in one of a plurality of switchable operational modes, which correspond to the operational functions respectively, comprising:

a reader unit including a light source to emit light onto an original document and a light receiving element to receive the light reflected on the original document to generate image data which corresponds to an image formed on the original document;
a plurality of operation receiving members, through which a user's instructions to operate the multifunction peripheral device are entered;
a valid instruction storage unit to store valid instruction information, which defines correspondence between a valid instruction and a valid instruction receiving member, the valid instruction being an operation entered in the multifunction peripheral device in a specific one of the operational modes to trigger the light source to be switched on, the valid instructive receiving member being one of the plurality of operation receiving members to be operated for the valid instruction to be entered;
a judging unit to judge as to whether an operation entered through one of the plurality of operation receiving members is the valid instruction based on the valid instruction information and a current operational mode in which the multifunction peripheral device is operated;
and
a switching unit to switch the light source on when the judging unit judges that the entered operation is the valid instruction.

3 more elements

A method to control a multifunction peripheral device, having a plurality of operational functions, to be operated in one of a plurality of switchable operational modes, which correspond to the operational functions respectively, comprising steps of:

reading an image formed on an original document by emitting light onto the original document and receiving the light reflected on the original document to generate image data corresponding to the image;
receiving a user's instruction to operate the multifunction peripheral device through one of a plurality of operation receiving members;
judging as to whether an operation entered through one of the plurality of operation receiving members is a valid instruction based on valid instruction information, which is stored in a valid instruction storage unit and defines correspondence between a valid instruction and a valid instruction receiving member, and a current operational mode in which the multifunction peripheral device is operated, the valid instruction being an operation entered in the multifunction peripheral device in a specific one of the operational modes to trigger the light source to be switched on, the valid instructive receiving member being one of the plurality of operation receiving members to be operated for the valid instruction to be entered;
and
switching the light source on when the judging unit judges that the entered operation is the valid instruction.

2 more elements

A computer usable medium comprising computer readable instructions to control a multifunction peripheral device, having a plurality of operational functions, to be operated in one of a plurality of switchable operational modes, which correspond to the operational functions respectively, by executing steps of:

reading an image formed on an original document by emitting light onto the original document and receiving the light reflected on the original document to generate image data corresponding to the image;
receiving a user's instruction to operate the multifunction peripheral device through one of a plurality of operation receiving members;
judging as to whether an operation entered through one of the plurality of operation receiving members is a valid instruction based on valid instruction information, which is stored in a valid instruction storage unit and defines correspondence between a valid instruction and a valid instruction receiving member, and a current operational mode in which the multifunction peripheral device is operated, the valid instruction being an operation entered in the multifunction peripheral device in a specific one of the operational modes to trigger the light source to be switched on, the valid instructive receiving member being one of the plurality of operation receiving members to be operated for the valid instruction to be entered;
and
switching the light source on when the judging unit judges that the entered operation is the valid instruction.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/175,145Filed 17 Jul 2008
Priority: JP 2007-18934620 Jul 2007
Published: 22 Jan 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 1/00413
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options
H04N 1/00387
Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads: multiple functions per key
H04N 1/00389
Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads: programmable function keys, e.g. for one-touch operation
H04N 1/00395
Input means: arrangements for reducing operator input