Printing apparatus and printing system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki NISHIKAWA
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit that executes an image process in accordance with an instruction by a user; an accumulating unit that accumulates electric energy consumed in a preparation process of the image processing unit for each user; and a control unit which, if the image processing unit is made usable by the preparation process and executes image processes in accordance with a plurality of instructions by a plurality of users, controls the accumulating unit to allot and accumulate the electric energy for each of the plurality of users.
Claims8
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image processing unit that executes an image process in accordance with an instruction by a user;
- an accumulating unit that accumulates electric energy consumed in a preparation process of the image processing unit for each user;
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- a control unit which, if the image processing unit is made usable by the preparation process and executes image processes in accordance with a plurality of instructions by a plurality of users, controls the accumulating unit to allot and accumulate the electric energy for each of the plurality of users.
An image processing system comprising:
- an image processing unit that executes an image process in accordance with an instruction by a user;
- an accumulating unit that accumulates electric energy consumed in a preparation process of the image processing unit for each user;
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- a control unit which, if the image processing unit is made usable by the preparation process and executes image processes in accordance with a plurality of instructions by a plurality of users, controls the accumulating unit to allot and accumulate the electric energy for each of the plurality of users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.