Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Yuqing Liu

Katsunori Enomoto

Kosuke Mori

Satoshi Tanimoto

Toyoshi Adachi

Tetsuya Okuno

Tony Lee

Hironori Takasaki

An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to, when a first user is logging in to the image forming apparatus, display a plurality of first icons to be arranged in a particular form of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns within a particular area on a standby screen. The plurality of first icons include an icon associated with the image scanning processing, an icon associated with the copy processing, and one or more icons not associated with image processing. The controller is further configured to, in said displaying the plurality of first icons, display, as the plurality of first icons, one or more icons associated with the first user, and one or more icons not associated with a second user, without displaying any icons associated with the second user, and display information other than the plurality of first icons outside the particular area.

Image forming apparatus for displaying appropriate objects on screen

A printer includes a controller, a memory, and a user interface. The printer has a first mode and a second mode. The controller disables the first mode when enabling the second mode and disables the second mode when enabling the first mode. The controller executes a first printing process while the first mode is enabled. In the first printing process, the controller receives a print job from a client device, stores the received print job in the memory, and performs printing based on the stored print job upon receiving a storage print command. The controller executes a second printing process and restricts the first printing process while the second mode is enabled. In the second printing process, the controller receives a print job from a server in response to receiving a prescribed input operation via the user interface, and performs printing based on the received print job from the server.

Printer provided with mode in which print based on print job transmitted from client device is restricted

An image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls a plurality of different types of image processing, register a plurality of objects to be arranged in a matrix form within a particular area of a screen, and controls a user interface to display the plurality of objects arranged in the matrix form within the particular area. The plurality of objects include a first object for controlling image processing associated with the first object, and a second object that is not for controlling any image processing. The controller controls the user interface to display a third object different from the plurality of objects arranged in the matrix form, outside the particular area, and when a first user is authenticated, control the user interface to display a user-authenticated screen including a shared object and a first user object within the particular area but not including a second user object.

A printing apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, a touch panel, a printer, and a controller. The printer prints an image on a recording medium. The controller is configured to: receive a print job through the communication interface and store the print job in the memory; control the touch panel to display a list including one or more job touch keys and a function touch key, the one or more job touch keys being for individually selecting one or more print jobs stored in the memory, the function touch key being for selecting all of the one or more job touch keys included in the list, the list being scrollable along a particular direction; and in response to receiving a scroll operation of the list, controlling the touch panel to cause the list to scroll along the particular direction.

Printing apparatus

A display control apparatus includes a controller configured to control a display to display a standby screen including one or more display target tabs among a plurality of tabs displayable on the standby screen, the plurality of tabs including one or more shared tabs associated with a shared attribute and one or more personal tabs associated with a personal attribute, switch a user mode of the apparatus between a public mode and a personal mode, when the user mode is set to the public mode, display the one or more display target tabs including the one or more shared tabs, and when accepting user authentication information of a particular registered user, set the user mode to the personal mode for the particular registered user, and display the one or more display target tabs including the one or more shared tabs and a personal tab associated with the particular registered user.

Image forming apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for displaying appropriate objects on screen in each user mode

A printing system includes: a first printer; a second printer; a server device; and a client device. The first printer is configured to perform: receiving first authentication information; accessing, in response to determining that first authentication performed according to a first authentication method is successful, the server device using first account information; receiving, from the server device, a print job stored in association with user identification information included in the first authentication information; printing an image based on the print job. The second printer is configured to perform: receiving second authentication information including the user identification information; accessing, in response to determining that second authentication performed according to a second authentication method is successful, the server device using second account information; receiving, from the server device, the print job stored in association with the user identification information; and printing the image based on the print job.

Printing system including server device capable of communicating with printers and client device

A printing system includes a printer, a server device, and a client device. The client device receives identification information of a user, and transmits a print job for an image to be printed to the server device. The print job is associated with a computer name. The computer name specifis the client device and is assigned to the received identification information. The server device stores the print job in a specific folder having a name corresponding to the identification information to which the computer name is assigned and which is associated with the print job. The printer searches a folder provided in the server device to find the specific folder, receives selection of a print job from among one or more print jobs stored in the found folder, receives the selected print job from the server device, and prints an image based on the received print job.

Printing system including server and printer printing image based on print job stored in the server

An image forming apparatus includes a user interface and a controller configured to control the user interface to display a screen including one or more display target objects among a plurality of objects including one or more objects each associated with user authentication information of a corresponding user. The controller is configured to accept user authentication information input via the user interface, and set a user mode to an authenticated user mode for an authenticated user, and to control the user interface to display, on the screen, the one or more display target objects including shared objects and authenticated user objects, but not including unauthenticated user objects. Each shared object is associated with no user authentication information, the authenticated user object is associated with the accepted user authentication information, and the unauthenticated user object is associated with different user authentication information from the accepted user authentication information.

Display control apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for displaying appropriate tabs on tabbed screen in each user mode

An image processing apparatus including a memory, a first communication interface configured to communicate with an authentication server, a second communication interface configured to receive terminal identifying information from an external device, a user interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to transmit the first authentication information to the authentication server and receive an authentication result. If the received authentication result indicates that authentication is successfully done, The controller switches a state of the image processing apparatus from a logged out state to a logged-in state. Further, the controller is configured to store terminal identifying information identifying the external device in the memory as corresponding information. In response to receiving the terminal identifying information, the controller performs authentication by collating the terminal identifying information and the corresponding information and switches the state of the image processing apparatus from the logged-out state to the logged-in state.

Image processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions therefor

In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.

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Yuqing Liu