Image forming apparatus, power control method, and storage medium

A power control method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:

• displaying, on a display of the image forming apparatus, one display screen of at least one display screen, the at least one display screen having a first identifier and being displayed by application software installed in the image forming apparatus;
• determining at least one hardware resource of hardware resources included in the image forming apparatus that should be provided power, based on the first identifier of the one display screen and a corresponding power status, wherein a power status is stored in association with a respective identifier of each of the at least one display screen and indicates whether each hardware resource should be provided the power during the display of the display screen;
• and
• providing the power to the determined at least one hardware resource.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a program that, when executed by an image forming apparatus, causes the image forming apparatus to implement a method, the method comprising:

• displaying, on a display of the image forming apparatus, one display screen of at least one display screen, the at least one display screen having a first identifier and being displayed by application software installed in the image forming apparatus;
• determining at least one hardware resource of hardware resources included in the image forming apparatus that should be provided power, based on the first identifier of the one display screen and a corresponding power status, wherein a power status is stored in association with each of the at least one display screen and indicates whether each hardware resource should be provided the power during the display of the display screen;
• and
• providing the power to the determined at least one hardware resource.