Decoloring apparatus and method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKen Iguchi
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Abstract
A decoloring apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit, a scanner, a decoloring unit positioned downstream of the scanner, a user interface, and a controller. The user interface includes a resolution setting section configured to receive input for setting the resolution of the image to be scanned by the scanner, and a processing mode setting section configured to receive input for setting whether to execute scanning processing by the scanner and for setting whether to execute decoloring processing by the decoloring unit. The controller is configured to control contents of the user interface and to perform a mode limiting processing so that when one of the scanning processing and decoloring processing is set to be executed, the other of the scanning processing and decoloring processing cannot be set to be executed.
Claims9
A decoloring apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet conveying unit;
- a scanner configured to scan an image on a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit;
- a decoloring unit positioned downstream of the scanner in a sheet conveying direction and configured to decolor the image on the sheet conveyed through the sheet conveying unit;
- a user interface including:
- a resolution setting section configured to receive an input for setting a resolution of the image to be scanned by the scanner, and
- a processing mode setting section having a first section and a second section and configured to receive a selection to execute scanning processing by the scanner in the first section and a selection to execute decoloring processing by the decoloring unit in the second section;
- and
- a controller configured to perform a mode limiting processing to
- control the processing mode setting section to disable the selection of the second section if the resolution setting section has received an input to set the resolution of the image higher than a predetermined resolution, and
- control the resolution setting section to disable any input that sets the resolution higher than the predetermined resolution if the processing mode setting section has received the selection to execute decoloring processing by the decoloring unit.
A method of controlling a decoloring apparatus that includes a sheet conveying unit, a scanner configured to scan an image on a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit, a decoloring unit positioned downstream of the scanner in a sheet conveying direction and configured to decolor the image on the sheet conveyed through the sheet conveying unit, the method comprising the steps of:
- displaying a user interface including a resolution setting section to receive an input for setting a resolution of the image to be scanned by the scanner and a processing mode setting section having a first section through which a selection to execute a scanning processing by the scanner is received and a second section through which a selection to execute a decoloring processing by the decoloring unit is received;
- and
- determining, based on inputs made through a user interface, a first setting of a resolution of the image to be scanned by the scanner, a second setting of whether to execute scanning processing by the scanner, and a third setting of whether to execute decoloring processing by the decoloring unit;
- and
- controlling the processing mode setting section to disable the selection of the second section if the resolution setting section has received an input to set the resolution of the image higher than a predetermined resolution, and
- controlling the resolution setting section to disable any input that sets the resolution higher than the predetermined resolution if the processing mode setting section has received the selection to execute decoloring processing by the decoloring unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.