Web content display system, image forming apparatus, web page providing method, and computer program

An image forming apparatus that can be remotely accessed from a terminal apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising:

• a display;
• a controller that executes a program to function as:
• a display control unit configured to control display of the display and to transmit image data of an image to the terminal apparatus in order to display the image to be displayed on the display, onto the terminal apparatus;
• an attribute information acquisition unit configured to obtain first attribute information related to an attribute of the terminal apparatus;
• a web content acquisition unit configured to obtain web content from a server by issuing a notification of second attribute information related to an attribute of the image forming apparatus to a server;
• and
• a browser unit configured to generate an image based on the obtained web content, wherein the display control unit displays, on the display, the image based on the web content that corresponds to the second attribute information, generated by the browser unit, in a case where remote access is not being executed from the terminal apparatus, and
• transmits, to the terminal apparatus, the image data of the obtained web content that have been adjusted on a basis of the first attribute information, in a case where remote access is being executed from the terminal apparatus.

A web page providing method on an image forming apparatus that includes a display and can be remotely accessed from a terminal apparatus, the method comprising causing the image forming apparatus to execute:

• first processing of obtaining first attribute information related to an attribute of the terminal apparatus;
• second processing of obtaining web content by issuing, to the server, a notification of second attribute information related to an attribute of the image forming apparatus in a case where remote access is not being executed from the terminal apparatus, and by issuing, to the server, a notification of the first attribute information in a case where remote access is being executed from the terminal apparatus;
• and
• third processing of generating an image based on the web content that corresponds to the second attribute information and displaying the generated image on the display in a case where remote access is not being executed from terminal apparatus, and generating the image data of an image based on the web content that corresponds to the first attribute information and transmitting the generated image data to the terminal apparatus in a case where remote access is being executed from the terminal apparatus.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a computer program used in an image forming apparatus that includes a display and can be remotely accessed from a terminal apparatus, the computer program causing the image forming apparatus to execute:

• first processing of obtaining first attribute information related to an attribute of the terminal apparatus;
• second processing of obtaining web content from a server by issuing, to the server, a notification of the second attribute information related to an attribute of the image forming apparatus;
• third processing of generating an image based on the obtained web content;
• and
• fourth processing of displaying, onto the display, an image based on the web content that corresponds to the second attribute information, generated by the third processing in a case where remote access is not being executed from the terminal apparatus, and transmitting, to the terminal apparatus, the image data of the obtained web content that have been adjusted on a basis of the first attribute information, in a case where remote access is being executed from the terminal apparatus.