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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshinobu Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/44 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00891 (2013.01); G06K 9/00369 (2013.01); H04N 1/00896 (2013.01); H04N 1/4426 (2013.01);
Abstract
When detection intensity by an object detection sensor is larger than a first threshold, a user is notified that the object detection sensor has detected an object. When detection intensity by the object detection sensor is larger than a second threshold which is larger than the first threshold, an image forming apparatus is recovered to a state capable of executing a function the image forming apparatus.