Image forming apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshiharu Takahashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area. A processor of the apparatus is configured to determine whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter.
Claims20
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The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the image forming apparatus includes the transmitter.
The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to control the transmitter to transmit a signal to the portable terminal including information identifying the image forming apparatus.
The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to control the transmitter to transmit within the detection area a signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold value.
The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the portable terminal is one of a smartphone, a wearable terminal, a mobile phone or a tablet PC.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area;
- and
- a processor configured to determine whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter,
- wherein when the portable terminal is determined to have been within the detection area for a first period of time, the processor is configured to shift to the operable state.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area;
- and
- a processor configured to determine whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter, wherein the processor is configured to shift from the sleep state to the operable state when a portable terminal entering the detection area is determined to exist in the detection region even after a setting time elapses.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area;
- and
- a processor configured to determine whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter,
- wherein when leaving information including user information indicating that the user leaves the detection area is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal, when a user indicated by the user information contained in the leaving information is in a login state, the processor is configured to perform a logout operation,
- wherein after the processor performs a logout operation, when the portable terminal is determined to have left the detection area for a period of time, the processor is configured to shift to the sleep state.
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The method according to claim 16, further comprising controlling the transmitter to transmit a signal to the portable terminal including information identifying the image forming apparatus.
A method of operating an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- communicating with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area;
- and
- determining whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter,
- wherein when the portable terminal is determined to have been within the detection area for a first period of time, shifting to the operable state.
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A method of operating an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- communicating with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area;
- determining whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter;
- and
- shifting from the sleep state to the operable state when the portable terminal entering the detection area is determined to exist in the detection region even after a setting time elapses.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.