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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHIROSHI OYA
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An image forming apparatus that can quickly display a screen of an application on activation and resume when the application is temporarily stopped or uninstalled. A function is added to the image forming apparatus by additionally installing an external application. The image forming apparatus includes a memory device and a processor to stop the external application when the external application is started and a stop instruction to the external application is received from a user, and change a screen setting displayed on activation or resume in accordance with a change instruction from the user to change the screen setting displayed on the activation or the resume when the stop instruction and the change instruction are received under a state where a screen setting of the external application is set as the screen setting displayed on the activation or the resume in device setting information about the image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus to which a function is added by additionally installing an external application, the image forming apparatus comprising:
A control method for an image forming apparatus to which a function is added by additionally installing an external application, the control method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for an image forming apparatus to which a function is added by additionally installing an external application, the control method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.