Image forming apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToru Ikeda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus combines a plurality of sub-movies representing operation procedures to be performed to perform maintenance on the image forming apparatus and plays the combined sub-movies sequentially as one movie. In response to stopping the movie being played, the image forming apparatus displays a replay mark for use to issue a command to replay the movie from the beginning of a sub-movie corresponding to a position where the movie is stopped.
Claims6
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a storage device configured to store a plurality of sub-movies, wherein at least one of the plurality of sub-movies represents an operation procedure to be performed by a user of the image processing apparatus;
- and
- one or more processors executing a set of instructions to:
- detect occurrence of a maintenance event;
- specify a plurality of sub-movies based on the detected maintenance event;
- and
- play the specified sub-movies in sequence.
A method for controlling an image processing apparatus which comprises a storage device configured to store a plurality of sub-movies, wherein at least one of the plurality of sub-movies represents an operation procedure to be performed by a user of the image processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- detecting occurrence of a maintenance event;
- specifying a plurality of sub-movies based on the detected maintenance event;
- and
- playing the specified sub-movies in sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.