Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMAKOTO OKUMURA, HIROKI MUNETOMO, HIROYUKI KAGEYAMA
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus including a controller, a display, and an image former, and being capable of executing a processing function by a voice operation, the controller performs controls to display, on the display, a voice operation screen including a command in response to a command to start an operation through a voice operation of a user, and execute a job in the image former in response to a command to execute the job being input by voice through a voice operation.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising a controller, a display, and an image former, and being capable of executing a processing function by a voice operation, wherein
- the controller performs controls to:
- be capable of displaying, on the display, a touch operation screen including an item capable of being used by a touch operation, and a voice operation screen used by the voice operation;
- switch the touch operation screen to the voice operation screen on the basis of to a command to start an operation by voice being input through the voice operation;
- and
- execute a processing function in the image former on the basis of a command being input by voice through the voice operation, the voice operation screen including no item used only by the touch operation.
A method of forming an image by an image forming apparatus which includes a controller, a display, and an image former and is capable of executing a processing function by a voice operation, the method comprising:
- displaying, on the display, a touch operation screen including an item capable of being used by a touch operation, and a voice operation screen used by the voice operation;
- switching the touch operation screen to the voice operation screen on the basis of a command being input by voice through the voice operation;
- and
- executing a processing function in the image former on the basis of a command being input by voice through the voice operation, wherein
- the voice operation screen includes no item used only by the touch operation.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program of an image forming apparatus which includes a controller, a display, and an image former and is capable of executing a processing function by a voice operation, the program causing a computer to implement:
- displaying, on the display, a touch operation screen including an item capable of being used by a touch operation, and a voice operation screen used by the voice operation;
- switching the touch operation screen to the voice operation screen on the basis of a command to start an operation by voice being input through the voice operation;
- and
- executing a processing function in the image former on the basis of a command being input by voice through the voice operation, wherein
- the voice operation screen includes no item used only by the touch operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.