US 8,797,567 B2Granted

Controlling an image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTsuyoshi Muto

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Abstract

The execution of an image processing job is limited using a printing amount by an image processing job that has already been executed and a printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by an image processing job that has already been transmitted but not yet executed. To accomplish this, a multi-function peripheral manages a first printing amount that has already been printed by a executed print job and a second printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by a print job that has been transmitted from the multi-function peripheral to a printer and that has not yet been executed in association with a user ID, and determines, before transmitting the print job, whether or not the total of a third printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by the print job, the first printing amount and the second printing amount exceeds an upper limit amount.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An image processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, the image processing apparatus comprising:

an input unit configured to input print data;
a communication unit configured to transmit, to the printing apparatus, print data input by the input unit and receive, from the printing apparatus, information indicating the transmitted print data of which printing has been completed in the printing apparatus;
a storage unit configured to store a first printing amount of the printing that has been completed in the printing apparatus and a second printing amount of the printing corresponding to the transmitted print data of which printing has not been completed in the printing apparatus yet;
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a control unit configured to determine whether a total amount of the first printing amount, the second printing amount, and a third printing amount of target print data is less than an upper limit amount, the target print data is data input by the input unit and is data to be transmitted by the communication unit;
wherein the control unit is configured to add the third printing amount to the second printing amount, and cause the communication unit to transmit the target print data, in a case where the total amount is less than the upper limit amount, and
wherein the control unit is configured to update the first printing amount and the second printing amount, in a case where the communication unit transmits the target print data to the printing apparatus and receives, from the printing apparatus, information indicating whether a printing corresponding to the transmitted target print data has been completed in the printing apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/841,231Filed 15 Mar 2013 · continuation
Priority: JP 2008-2566371 Oct 2008
Published: US 2013/0208319 A115 Aug 2013
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 1/32106
Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title: separate from the image data, e.g. in…
G06F 3/122
Reducing or saving of used resources, e.g. avoiding waste of consumables or improving usage of hardware resources: with regard to computing…
G06F 3/1239
Print job management: restricting the usage of resources, e.g. usage or user levels, credit limit, consumables, special fonts
G06F 3/1259
Print job management: print job monitoring, e.g. job status

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Application12/563,113Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Sep 2009
US 2013/0208319 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 Aug 2013
US 8,493,585 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2010/0079800 A1Published application
US 8,797,567 B2This patent

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