Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsShoichi SAKAGUCHI, Fumiya SAKASHITA, Junpei TAKADA, Yumi HIROBE, Takuma FUJIKAWA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a manual input operation via an operation device and a voice instruction via a microphone; and a controller that executes a job on the basis of setting received by the receiver. The controller performs control of not executing a predefined job of the image forming apparatus when the microphone is brought into a state where voice is input and executing the predefined job when the microphone is not in the state where voice is input.
Claims3
An image forming apparatus that includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a voice input device that receives an input of voice from a user;
- and
- a control device that includes a processor and, through the processor executing a control program, acts as:
- a receiver that receives a voice instruction based on the voice input to the voice input device;
- and
- a controller that executes a job in accordance with content of the voice instruction received by the receiver,
- wherein the controller is capable of selectively setting an ordinary mode in which the image forming apparatus operates normally, and a silent mode in which the image forming apparatus operates with reduced driving sound, and
- the controller performs control of not bringing, when causing the image forming apparatus to execute a predefined job in which the image forming apparatus operates with driving sound of not less than a predetermined sound volume, in the ordinary mode, the voice input device into a state where voice is input, and bringing, when causing the image forming apparatus to execute the predefined job in the silent mode, the voice input device into the state where voice is input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.