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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Naohiko Kosaka, San Ramon, CA (US);
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming method includes: sending a print job and a print job ticket including user ID data from a terminal to an image forming apparatus and sending the print job ticket to a mobile terminal; receiving the print job ticket by the image forming apparatus; waiting for an access from a mobile terminal having the user ID data using a wireless communication in a specified range from the image forming apparatus; authenticating for accessing the print job ticket in the image forming apparatus using the user ID data; acquiring a facial image of a user in front of the image forming apparatus in response to the authentication; recognizing a face of an owner of the print job ticket in the acquired facial image to cause the image forming apparatus to print the image data; and printing the image data while the facial image is being recognized.