Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorYoshio MORITA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an image reading portion generating document image data, a job execution portion executing a job based on the document image data, a control portion controlling the job execution portion, and a storage portion storing a registered signature image. The control portion determines the degree of match between a document signature image present in the document image data and the registered signature image. The control portion permits execution of the job when the degree of match is equal to or higher than a first threshold value and inhibits execution of the job when the degree of match is lower than the first threshold value.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image reading portion that reads a document to generate document image data;
- a job execution portion that executes a job based on the document image data;
- a control portion that controls the job execution portion;
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- a storage portion that stores a registered signature image which is an image of a previously registered signature,
- wherein the control portion determines a degree of match between a document signature image, which is an image included in the document image data and corresponding to a signature written on the document, and the registered signature image so that, if the degree of match between the document signature image and the registered signature image is equal to or higher than a prescribed first threshold value, the control portion permits execution of the job and, if the degree of match between the document signature image and the registered signature image is lower than the first threshold value, the control portion inhibits execution of the job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.