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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Saka, Toyohashi, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a measurer that measures biometric information of a user, an analyzer that analyzes the measured biometric information, a job accepter that accepts jobs, a job executer that executes the jobs accepted by the job accepter, a hardware processor configured to estimate a job execution time period during which the job executor executes each of at least one of a plurality of jobs accepted by the job acceptor, to estimate a finish time point at which the analyzer finishes the analysis, and, in response to start of measurement of the biometric information by the measurer, to change execution order of a relating job, which relates to the user who is a subject of the measurement by the measurer, among the plurality of jobs such that a period during which the relating job is executed and the finish time point have a predetermined relationship.