Terminal device, image forming apparatus and system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTSUTOMU ITAI
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Abstract
A terminal device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of switching an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode, and a controller, wherein the controller, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses via the communicator, receives information of each image forming apparatus including the operation mode, based on the information of each image forming apparatus, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, via the communicator to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.
Claims8
A terminal device comprising:
- a communicator capable of communicating with a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of switching an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein
- the controller,
- from the plurality of image forming apparatuses via the communicator, receives information of each image forming apparatus, including the operation mode,
- based on the information of each image forming apparatus, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and
- sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, via the communicator to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communicator capable of communicating with a terminal device:
- and
- a controller,
- wherein
- the controller,
- sends, to the terminal device, information of each image forming apparatus including an operation mode,
- from the terminal device via the communicator, receives a request signal that switches an operation mode from an energy-saving mode to a normal mode, and
- based on the request signal, switches the operation mode from the energy-saving mode to the normal mode.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- and
- a terminal device,
- wherein
- the image forming apparatuses each have a switcher that switches an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode,
- the terminal device includes
- a receiver that, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses, receives information of each of the image forming apparatuses including the operation modes,
- a display that, based on the information of each of the image forming apparatuses, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and
- a sender that sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.