Image forming apparatus and authentication method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShohhei MOROI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including applications and system side software for providing system side services to the applications is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an authentication module for displaying an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, wherein the authentication module allows the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition, and wherein the authentication module is provided in the image forming apparatus separately from the system side software.
Claims1
An image forming apparatus including application software and system software for providing system services to the application software, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an authentication module configured to display an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the authentication module is further configured to allow the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.